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
