We are trying to migrate from Samba/LPRng to Samba/CUPS and have hit some snags. We're using the Samba box as a print server for our corporate network, and have a variety of Windows versions on the network. The problem we're having is with our Windows 95 clients. Win95 uses the printer comment when it maps to the printer on the server. However, when we connect to a printer, we no longer see the printer comment. That is to say, if we browse the printers available on the box, we'll see print ISLJ4100 with the comment "I/S Printer" but when we connect to it, the printer shows up in our Printers control panel with no comment. This works fine on our Win2K boxes, but is a show stopper for our Win9x boxes. We're running Samba 3.0 RC2 and CUPS 1.1.19. Any ideas where things are breaking down? Thanks a lot! -- Jason Lee - Programmer Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
No takers. Shoot. Is this a better question for the CUPS group? I'm more than happy to go elsewhere if I need to. I don't want to be obnoxious. ;) Thanks! -- Jason Lee - Programmer Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Jason D. Lee [mailto:jason.lee@hobbylobby.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:22 AM To: 'samba@lists.samba.org' Subject: [Samba] Samba and CUPS Config Issue We are trying to migrate from Samba/LPRng to Samba/CUPS and have hit some snags. We're using the Samba box as a print server for our corporate network, and have a variety of Windows versions on the network. The problem we're having is with our Windows 95 clients. Win95 uses the printer comment when it maps to the printer on the server. However, when we connect to a printer, we no longer see the printer comment. That is to say, if we browse the printers available on the box, we'll see print ISLJ4100 with the comment "I/S Printer" but when we connect to it, the printer shows up in our Printers control panel with no comment. This works fine on our Win2K boxes, but is a show stopper for our Win9x boxes. We're running Samba 3.0 RC2 and CUPS 1.1.19. Any ideas where things are breaking down? Thanks a lot! -- Jason Lee - Programmer Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
We have printing working from our Win2K clients, but the problem we have is that, once a printer is mapped on the client, if we look at that printer in the printers control panel, we don't see the comment or location fields as having any data. Since these fields are blank, our Win9x clients won't be able to map to any printers on this box, as they apparently depend on the comment field from the print server. What we can't figure out is why the comment fields are showing up blank after mapping the printer (if you browse the printers, all the comments are there, though) and how to make them show up. Any ideas where we're missing something? Thanks for your help. :) -- Jason Lee - Programmer Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: John H Terpstra [mailto:jht@samba.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:13 PM To: Jason D. Lee Cc: 'samba@lists.samba.org' Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba and CUPS Config Issue On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Jason D. Lee wrote:> No takers. Shoot. Is this a better question for the CUPS group? I'mmore> than happy to go elsewhere if I need to. I don't want to be obnoxious. ;) > Thanks!If this is not sufficiently covered in the CUPS chapter in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf that ships with Samba-3.0.0RC3 please let me know. There are links to this document on the Samba web site under documentation. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org