Hi, I'm having problems with Samba printing. Setup is:- Samba 2.2.8a Debian Woody LPRng printing HP Laserjet 4 plus printer Windows NT 4 clients Printing is set up using a print$ share and spoolss, with the driver on the server. All users connected to this printer have their machines set to UK regional settings, and the document defaults and printer properties in the printer driver setup are all set to A4 paper. The printer itself is configured for A4. Whenever any print job is sent to it, it puts itself offline, and comes up with "PC LOAD LETTER" on the LED display. Are there any known bugs which might cause this? I've checked every stage of the config I can think of, and there is nothing that I can find that is set to letter, but for some reason every job seems to arrive at the printer formatted with letter, even the NT printer test page. Any ideas appreciated, before I take a heavy object to it :-). Mike.
Hello Mike, This sounds impossible on the face of it. If you left-click Start-->Settings-->Printers and then right-click on the printer in question and select Document Defaults... do you really see Paper Size: <A4> ? And when your users are about to print from a Windows app do they really see A4 if they click the "Properties" button in the print dialogue? I'd be surprised if they do! PCC -----Original Message----- From: Mike Brodbelt [mailto:m.brodbelt@acu.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 08 April, 2003 4:19 PM Hi, I'm having problems with Samba printing. Setup is:- Samba 2.2.8a Debian Woody LPRng printing HP Laserjet 4 plus printer Windows NT 4 clients Printing is set up using a print$ share and spoolss, with the driver on the server. All users connected to this printer have their machines set to UK regional settings, and the document defaults and printer properties in the printer driver setup are all set to A4 paper. The printer itself is configured for A4. Whenever any print job is sent to it, it puts itself offline, and comes up with "PC LOAD LETTER" on the LED display. Are there any known bugs which might cause this? I've checked every stage of the config I can think of, and there is nothing that I can find that is set to letter, but for some reason every job seems to arrive at the printer formatted with letter, even the NT printer test page. Any ideas appreciated, before I take a heavy object to it :-). Mike.
On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:18, Mike Brodbelt wrote:> Any ideas appreciated, before I take a heavy object to it :-).hey - i thought you europeans were non-violent ;) actually that's not really funny at the moment... on to the problem... I suspect that lprng is responsible for mucking with your papersize... be certain that the clients are putting out A4 requests (print to a file and look at the file with gv to be sure that is is A4 size) I recommend that you switch to the cups printing backend - it's quite reliable in my hands. If you want to stick with lprng then i'd have a look around in the config files for a US letter translation. best wishes brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>