Doug, Thank you very much. My wife is much happier now and I have one less headache. Your suggestion was all I needed to get it working. -Darren On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 22:26, Doug B wrote: > I found your question as I was going through the archives. I just > subcribed to the list, but in case I don't have things set up > correctly, and the reply to the list doesn't go through, I thought I > would send this to you off-list also. I suspect you have the same > problem I had... then again maybe not. > > On Sunday 20 April 2003 12:01 am, Darren wrote: > > > Anyone out there that can tell me what I have to do to get samba to > > print via cups? I have been digging on the samba site and I'm > > finding no answers. I tried to just use the cups server itself to > > set up printing for my wife's pc (she uses win98 part time), but > > there is a bug and it simply doesn't work. I would be happy to get > > samba back up the way I had it in 7.3 but now I am running cups of > > course. What needs to be in my config? I have one HP deskjet > > printer. I usually set up two spools to apear as two printers to the > > win clients. The reason is that I set different resolutions for the > > driver for printing pictures and for other stuff. How do I get that > > back with cups and samba? The printers show up but the jobs go to > > the bit bucket. . .what have I got wrong? > > > > This may not be a samba problem. > > I checked /var/log/cups/error_log and found this when I tried to print > from a machine using samba: > > print_job: Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'! > Hint: Do you have the raw file printing rules enabled? > > Near the bottom of /etc/cups/mime.types find and uncomment the line as > below: > > # > # Raw print file support... > # > # Uncomment the following type and the application/octet-stream > # filter line in mime.convs to allow raw file printing without the > # -oraw option. > # > > application/octet-stream > > # > # End of "$Id: mime.types,v 1.25 2002/11/24 22:32:01 mike Exp $". > > Then in /etc/cups/mime.convs find and uncomment as shown: > > # > # Raw filter... > # > # Uncomment the following filter and the application/octet-stream type > # in mime.types to allow printing of arbitrary files without the -oraw > # option. > # > > application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - > > # > # End of "$Id: mime.convs,v 1.17 2002/08/09 00:00:54 mike Exp $". > > restart cups > > Worked for me. Good luck! > > Doug -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber weberdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Key available at: http://www.keyserver.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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