Hey Simon
I still haven't got mine distiller through samba to work, I'm interested in seeing how
you got it to work.
I have been trying to set this up on my Mandrake box, but even though I can print
locally to the printer I have set up (called distiller) which creates a test.ps file
in /shr/pdf (permissions owner=nobody,group=nobody)
the /shr directory is setup under samba to be
[shr]
path=/shr/pdf
create mask = 0777
browseable = Yes
Writeable = Yes
guest ok = Yes
force user = nobody
I then have a cron job which checks the directory every 5 minutes and converts to pdf,
more or less as per your script below.
When I print through samba from a Winnt box or another mandrake the files disappear
into the never, never. Printing SMB to another printer setup prints fine.
CUPS is the printer backend
I can't work it out
Regards
Chris
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:19:57 +0000
"Rev Simon Rumble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I solved my pdf printing problem by trying to log the output of
> ps2pdf. As soon as I redirected the output of ps2pdf, the files
> started printing just fine! Can anyone pick why?!?!?
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Simple script to convert a specified postscript file into a PDF
> document
> # and place it in a location that is shared by the Samba server.
> #
> # Arguments:
> # 1st - The name of the spool file
> #
> # John Bright, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> # We will create the pdf into a temporary file based upon the current date and time.
> # After we are finished, we'll rename it to a file with the same date, but ending
> # in .pdf. We do this because if a user tries to open a PDF that is still being
>written,
> # they will get a message that it is corrupt, when it is actually just not done yet.
>
> DATE=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`
>
> # Directory in which to place the output
> # Be sure this directory exists and is writable by the user that Samba
> # is running as (for example, the nobody user)
> OUTDIR=/var/spool/pdfdropbox
>
> ps2pdf $1 $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp >/tmp/pdfprint.log
> mv $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp $OUTDIR/$DATE.pdf
> rm $1
>
>
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