Which printing mnechansim works best with Samba? CUPS or BSD? I suspect that BSD support in Samba is not the greatest. Regards, Joe -- #----------------------------------------------------------# # Penguinix Consulting # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Software development, QA and testing. # # Linux support and training. # # "Don't fear the penguin!" # #----------------------------------------------------------# # Registered Linux user: #309247 http://counter.li.org # #----------------------------------------------------------#
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:57:34PM -0700, Joe Cipale wrote:> Which printing mnechansim works best with Samba? CUPS or BSD? I suspect > that BSD support in Samba is not the greatest.Without any other requirements listed, I'd say CUPS. CUPS also support BSD ;)
> Joe Cipale joec at aracnet.com > Tue Apr 20 20:57:34 GMT 2004 > > Which printing mnechansim works best with Samba? CUPS or BSD?CUPS. libcups.so is linked into Samba (if configured with this -- default -- option). CUPS is also much more advanced and feature-rich than BSD.> I suspect > that BSD support in Samba is not the greatest. >Don't blame Samba for that.... ;-) The reason is, that BSD-printing doesn't support much by itself. ;-)> Regards, > > JoeCheers, Kurt
Joe Cipale wrote:> Kurt Pfeifle wrote: > >>>Joe Cipale joec at aracnet.com >>>Tue Apr 20 20:57:34 GMT 2004 >>> >>>Which printing mnechansim works best with Samba? CUPS or BSD? >> >>CUPS. libcups.so is linked into Samba (if configured with this >>-- default -- option). CUPS is also much more advanced and >>feature-rich than BSD. >> >> >>>I suspect >>>that BSD support in Samba is not the greatest. >>> >> >>Don't blame Samba for that.... ;-) >> >>The reason is, that BSD-printing doesn't support much by itself. ;-)[....]> Sounds like I may have to: > 1 - Reinstall Samba and make sure I have the cups option compiled in.First check your current version: ldd `which smbd` | grep cups should output something like libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0x4002f000) Or, in Samba-3, use smbd -b | grep -i cups and look for HAVE_CUPS> 2 - Validate whcih vers of CUPS I am using. (IS there a way to do that?) > > Thanks in advance, > > JoeKurt