Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof
Kent -
I may have had a similar problem such as the "cat" errors and
stair-stepping. At one time I think I found that it was the last line of
the magicfilter driver (the default) that was the problem (when printing
plain text). I think I found that I could cat a file directly to
smbclient using the command line args from the smbprint script. Try that
to see if it works. I also remember running smbclient interactively and
getting it to print. These two things led me to the dj550c-filter being
the problem.
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote:
> Hans Steinraht wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > The thing I try to figure out is how I can print from my Debian sid to a
> > printer that's connected to a windows 2000 proffesional machine.
> >
> > I have read something about it and saw that there are different ways that might
> > work.
> > Maybe someone has already experience with it and can point me to the right
> > direction.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Hans
> >
> >
> >
>
> I'm not using CUPS (just lprng and samba), and have been trying for a
> year and a half (off-and-on of course) to print from a Linux box to a
> printer hanging off a Windows box. I'm confident that it can be done,
> but the documentation is sadly lacking, or perhaps I'm just too dense to
> get it.
>
> However, for your perusal, here's what I have, and it's fairly close:
>
> Contents of /etc/printcap:
>
> lp
> :lp=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote/.null
> :cm=Helpdesk 3 HP LaserJet 3
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote
> :sh
> :pw#80
> :pl#66
> :px#1440
> :mx#0
> :if=/etc/samba/smbprint
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote/acct
> :lf=/var/log/lp-errs
>
>
> Output of "ls -ld /var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote":
>
> drwx------ 2 daemon lp 1024 Jan 3 11:43 hplj3-remote/
>
>
> Output of ls -la /var/spool/lpd/hplj3-remote":
>
> drwx------ 2 daemon lp 1024 Jan 3 11:43 .
> drwxrwsr-x 5 lp lp 1024 Nov 13 09:06 ..
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 60 Dec 11 15:58 .config
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Nov 26 17:01 .null
>
>
> Contents of ".config":
> server=helpdesk3
> service=zel319hp
> password="myuser%myuser'spassword"
>
> .null is simply a "holding place" for a lock file for the "lp=" line in
> my printcap as per some footnote to a HOWTO I read somewhere along the way.
>
>
> The real magic apparently takes place in the smbprint file. This file is
> in the /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/examples/printing/smbprint
> directory on my box, but I copied it to /etc/samba, although it might
> more properly go into a /bin directory.
>
> The core magic of this script seems to be this section:
> if [ $TRANS -eq 1 ]; then
> echo translate
> fi
> echo "print -"
> cat
> ) | smbclient "\\\\$server\\$service" -U $password -N -P >> $logfile
>
> I'm able to successfully connect to the share/service, but according to
> the log file (which I set earlier in the smbprint file to be
> /tmp/smb-print.log) shows this:
>
> SERVER = helpdesk3
> SERVICE = zel319hp
> added interface ip=xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq bcast=xxx.yyy.abc.def nmask=255.255.248.0
> Got a positive name query response from xxx.yyy.zzz.dns ( xxx.yyy.zzz.nn )
> Domain=[ACU] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> smb: \> smb: \> echo: command not found
> smb: \> cat: command not found
> smb: \> ): command not found
> smb: \> smb: \> echo: command not found
> smb: \> smb: \>
>
>
> In addition to this problem, I haven't been able to find any
> documentation as to what the option "-P' means, which makes me suspect
> that the script was written for an older version of samba that no longer
> works with this script, but being a non-coder, I haven't been able to
> figure out how to modify the script to work.
>
> In addition, I once got something out of the printer, but I had to force
> a formfeed at the printer's front control panel to get the page to spit
> out, and it suffered from the common stair-step problem. When I tried to
> incorporate magicfilter to compensate, things just got worse, as the
> documentation I found for that method seems to conflict with the docs
> for this method, and in trying to figure out how things worked just
> found that an if filter is apparently not treated as a script, even
> though it looks (to me) like a script (try creating a "Hello world!"
> script and then referencing it in the if= line in printcap -- you'd
> expect to see "Hello world!" when you "print" something, but it never
> worked for me, so I just got frustrated and gave up, until you asked
> this question and now I'm playing again -- maybe in another half year
> I'll have it figured out and can help you then).
>
> I could give up on lprng/magicfilter/samba and just use CUPS, but I'm
> strapped for memory, and have just barely enough for X and Galeon
> without any extraneous stuff -- if I ever get it working it'll go into
> production along with 3 clones as a web-browsing-only kiosk.
>
> So, in summary, I believe it can be done, but good luck!
>
> Kent
>
>
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...RickM...
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