Well.. okay. Only printers. I am still having issues (pains, actually) getting my pritner shares to work from either Linux OR Windows 2000. One of the things I see here is that the majority of users use CUPS as the printing daemon. From my previous Unix experieince, I have gravitated towards BSD as my printing daemon. Could this be the reason I am having trouble> Does Samba work better with CUPS as opposed to BSD? Inquiring minds want to know. Joe Cipale -- #----------------------------------------------------------# # Penguinix Consulting # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Software development, QA and testing. # # Linux support and training. # # "Don't fear the penguin!" # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Registered Linux user: #309247 http://counter.li.org # #----------------------------------------------------------#
Joe C. wrote:> > Could this be the reason I am having trouble? Does Samba work > better with CUPS as opposed to BSD? Inquiring minds want to know. >Well, I'm publishig a couple of Solaris printer queues out via Smaba with few enough pains. And, to up the ante, I'm going to start managing the quqwued jobs with a program called Xi-Text. So no, CUPS isn't the _only_ game in town -- but there's a lot more players at that table than any other. :7) -wde -- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Joe Cipale wrote:> Well.. okay. Only printers. > > I am still having issues (pains, actually) getting my pritner shares to > work from either Linux OR Windows 2000. One of the things I see here is > that the majority of users use CUPS as the printing daemon. From my > previous Unix experieince, I have gravitated towards BSD as my printing > daemon. > > Could this be the reason I am having trouble> Does Samba work better > with CUPS as opposed to BSD? Inquiring minds want to know.Both work. With BSD LPR/LPD you have to specific the if= line to call smbprint. You also have to configure it. Look inside it. With CUPS life is in fact simpler, but from the noise on this list one wonders sometimes. :( For CUPS: Just make sure that you enable application/octet-stream in the /etc/cups/mime.* files. CUPS is transparent. Samba communicates with it via a direct API - IF samba has been compiled and linked with the cups-devel libraries. In this case, it does not use or require any interface scripts. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org