Jeff Waugh                                                         
                            
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                    Sent by:             Subject:     [SLUG] SAMBA + CUPS integration  
                            
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                    12/12/2001                                                         
                            
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On 12/12 Jeff Waugh wrote :

>Hi all,


>So, from reading the documentation for new versions of SAMBA, it sounds
like
>you can simply put "printing = cups" into smb.conf and let SAMBA sort out
>which printers are available from CUPS.

>Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working that way for me. Have I
managed
>to read into the documentation too far?

>If anyone's using this feature successfully, I'd be interested to find out
>the differences in config, or if there's any trick to it.

It works for me.  I seem to remember that when configuring CUPS there is an
option for CUPS to create a printcap file.  I expect CUPS doesn't need it
but that Samba (and other apps) might still use it.  The printcap file only
contains a list of printer names, 1 per line followed by a colon.

Steven



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