Hi I was searching on google for how to do this, but most of the info that I came across for setting up a pdf printer + sharing with samba doesn't work (from what I can work out) with cups, as it does things differently (it thinks outside the box) the /etc/printcap is dynamically generated by cups and only lists the names of the printers followed by a colon eg DT65: DC400: DC451: DT135:
if you manually edit this file, on restarting cups, your extra configuration disappears. I came across this link http://users.swing.be/kdeprint/pdf which is a script file to be added as a backend for cups. I have done this, but I don't get any output. my /etc/cups/printers.conf has this <Printer pdf> DeviceURI pdf:/mnt/pdfdrop State Stopped StateMessage Accepting Yes JobSheets none none </Printer> my /mnt/pdfdrop has the following permissions drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Mar 8 03:14 pdfdrop/ print jobs to the printer are just sitting in the queue, and printing gets disabled for the queue. any ideas TIA Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
