printing problem with samba and cups

hello there,

i'm a new linux user and i got some problem with printing from windows
xp over samba. i set up a network printer and it shows me under winXP,
that the printer is ready. but when i will print, then nothing will
happen. there is no error message and nothing will be printed.

for the print-jobs i've made a directory named spool, the rights are 777
and the sticky bit is set too (because nobody should cancel a
print-job from another user).

do somebody know or guess what i did wrong?

greetings
sven

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:09:30 +0200
Sven Freihofer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> hello there,
>
> i'm a new linux user and i got some problem with printing from windows
> xp over samba. i set up a network printer and it shows me under winXP,
> that the printer is ready. but when i will print, then nothing will
> happen. there is no error message and nothing will be printed.
>
> for the print-jobs i've made a directory named spool, the rights are 777
> and the sticky bit is set too (because nobody should cancel a
> print-job from another user).
>
> do somebody know or guess what i did wrong?
>
> greetings
> sven

IF you allready got cups installed, leave samba out for printing, instead just send the docs to cups direct.
To install the printer on Windows, add a networkprinter with the URL http://servername:631/printername
To be able to print raw data, you need to change a couple conf-files on the server:
/etc/cups/mime.convs -> uncomment the line
*/* application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -

/etc/cups/mime.types -> uncomment the line
application/octet-stream

Restart cups

So printing should work fine from windows


Greets
Chris

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:10:04 +0200, Christoph Scheurer wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:09:30 +0200
> Sven Freihofer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> hello there,
>>
>> i'm a new linux user and i got some problem with printing from windows
>> xp over samba. i set up a network printer and it shows me under winXP,
>> that the printer is ready. but when i will print, then nothing will
>> happen. there is no error message and nothing will be printed.
>>
>> for the print-jobs i've made a directory named spool, the rights are 777
>> and the sticky bit is set too (because nobody should cancel a
>> print-job from another user).
>>
>> do somebody know or guess what i did wrong?
>>
>> greetings
>> sven
>
> IF you allready got cups installed, leave samba out for printing, instead just send the docs to cups direct.
> To install the printer on Windows, add a networkprinter with the URL http://servername:631/printername
> To be able to print raw data, you need to change a couple conf-files on the server:
> /etc/cups/mime.convs -> uncomment the line
> */* application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
>
> /etc/cups/mime.types -> uncomment the line
> application/octet-stream
>
> Restart cups
>
> So printing should work fine from windows
>
>
> Greets
> Chris


Thanks for the excellent tip.

What happens when I get the error message;

"User intervention required. Use printer offline"

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:06:07 -0700
"Rodney D. Myers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>
> What happens when I get the error message;
>
> "User intervention required. Use printer offline"
>
No idea, evr happemed to me. Check out http://servername:631 with your webbrowser, it0s the managementpage of the cups-server

Greets
Chris