Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2004-Aug-27 00:02 UTC
[Samba] clarification on recent printing threads
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you are having any printing issues and upgrading from 3.0.2a to v3.0.3 or later, please read this: Prior to Samba 3.0.3, Linux system were incorrectly tagged as using BSD printing by default even if cups support was detected. Ironically, this was correct for many systems that had the cups-devel package installed but still ran lpd. Samba 3.0.3 and later will set "printing = cups" as the default if we have detected that cups support is indeed available. This test does not include whether or not you are using the cups server. You can check if this is the case on your system by running $ testparm -v -s /dev/null | egrep '(print|lp)' To disable the check at compile time, add --enable-cups=no to your configure options. To override this at run time, make sure you explicitly set the printing parameter in smb.conf. And please be aware that the printing option should work correctly on a per service basis as the documentation states as of 3.0.4. Hope this helps someone. - -- cheers, jerry - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "If we're adding to the noise, turn off this song"--Switchfoot (2003) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBLnogIR7qMdg1EfYRArSHAKChT8CxJ07FOqX9VIX3+mXgxQgRjwCgzsIQ 8G6NaVbeA83KRe7c6uYIXpA=ZMvA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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