CentOS - Jun 2011 - CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there?

The CUPS printing guide is a horrendous maze of options. I've got
nearly there but I've got
one thing wrong and I don't know where to look.

I set up our two printers (HP K5400s) using the GUI printer tool. Both
print the test page just fine.
I set up the [printers] and [print$] shares and can browse to the
printers from Windows (XP for me)
I managed to get the postscript drivers installed with cupsaddsmb and
it installs on the XP client just fine.

..... sadly it just prints the postscript instead of rendering it. I
guess the printer queue is in raw mode
but I can't see where to change it. I vaguely remember foomatic and
such from ages back. Can someone
point me at the right part of the setup to fix this please?

-- 
Kevin Thorpe
Head of IT
PI Benchmark

Kevin Thorpe wrote:
> Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there?
>
> The CUPS printing guide is a horrendous maze of options. I've got
> nearly there but I've got
> one thing wrong and I don't know where to look.
>
> I set up our two printers (HP K5400s) using the GUI printer tool. Both
The GUI printer tool - is that from the o/s, or, from the server, did you
browse to  <http://localhost:631/>? From the latter, you can add
printer->choose driver.
<snip>
        mark

Dear Kevin,

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:16:54 +0100
Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at pibenchmark.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there?
> 
> The CUPS printing guide is a horrendous maze of options. I've got
> nearly there but I've got
> one thing wrong and I don't know where to look.
you have to do the following:

In CUPS https://localhost:631/ setup your printers and set the printer
driver for each printer to local raw printer

In /etc/samba/smb.conf make sure you have the following settings

[main]
printing = cups

# printer share for your windows drivers
[print$]
comment = printer drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/somewhere
read only = yes
guest ok = no
write list = @somegroup, john

mkdir
/var/lib/samba/somewhere/{COLOR,IA64,W32ALPHA,W32MIPS,W32PPC,W32X86,WIN40,x64}

# set permissions
chown -R john:somegroup /var/lib/samba/somewhere
chmod 775 /var/lib/samba/somewhere

or if you use ACL
setfacl --recursive -m g:somegroup:rwx /var/lib/samba/somewhere
etc.


Grant the SePrintOperatorPrivilege privilege

net rpc rights grant "<domain|hostname\<user|group>" \
SePrintOperatorPrivilege -U <hostname>/root


In windows open the print management tool and install the device drivers
there.


HTH, Brgds


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Benjamin Hackl
IT/Administration

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