samba - Jul 2004 - Printer driver: different options with samba

Hello everyone,

I was wondering about the behaviour of printer drivers, in relation with 
Samba. The printer is installed, printing on Samba goes via lprng, and 
Windows printer drivers are installed on the Samba server. On the other 
hand I have an NT4 server with the same drivers (same version) printing to 
the same printer over the same protocol (LPD). (BTW, the printer is an HP 
Laserjet 4200, in case it matters).

Now what is weird is that not all options that I have when printing via 
the NT4 server appear when I print over Samba (e.g. "Multiple pages per 
sheet" is missing). Same behavior with PCL or PS drivers.

Does anyone know where this comes from? Who/what makes the difference 
between the servers, if the driver is the same? Do I have to live with it?

While I found related questions on the mailing list, I failed to see an 
answer on the issue. If I'm wrong, any pointer to related readings are 
most welcome....

Best,
Gilles

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gilles.massen@restena.lu wrote:

| I was wondering about the behaviour of printer drivers, in relation with
| Samba. The printer is installed, printing on Samba goes via lprng, and
| Windows printer drivers are installed on the Samba server. On the other
| hand I have an NT4 server with the same drivers (same version)
printing to
| the same printer over the same protocol (LPD). (BTW, the printer is an HP
| Laserjet 4200, in case it matters).
|
| Now what is weird is that not all options that I have
| when printing via  the NT4 server appear when I print over
| Samba (e.g. "Multiple pages per  sheet" is missing). Same behavior
| with PCL or PS drivers.

Probably a RAW vs. EMF printing issue.  Some features only
available when you are using the print processor (which is
used when used enable 'advanced features' of the driver
(i.e. EMF)).

Try setting the NT print server to use RAW printing only and
see if the options don't match what you see on the Samba server.

Printer Prop -> General Tab -> Print Processor..." ->
	[X] Always Spool RAW datatype





cheers, jerry
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Hi,

You're most certainly right. I don't have an option for restricting
output
to 'raw', but disabling the enhanced features brings the NT and Samba 
server to the same level.

And now that I know what to look for I have a lot of reading to do (and 
installing CUPS...).

Thanks,
Gilles

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| I was wondering about the behaviour of printer drivers, in relation with
| Samba. The printer is installed, printing on Samba goes via lprng, and
| Windows printer drivers are installed on the Samba server. On the other
| hand I have an NT4 server with the same drivers (same version)
printing to
| the same printer over the same protocol (LPD). (BTW, the printer is an 
HP
| Laserjet 4200, in case it matters).
|
| Now what is weird is that not all options that I have
| when printing via  the NT4 server appear when I print over
| Samba (e.g. "Multiple pages per  sheet" is missing). Same behavior
| with PCL or PS drivers.

Probably a RAW vs. EMF printing issue.  Some features only
available when you are using the print processor (which is
used when used enable 'advanced features' of the driver
(i.e. EMF)).

Try setting the NT print server to use RAW printing only and
see if the options don't match what you see on the Samba server.

Printer Prop -> General Tab -> Print Processor..." ->
                 [X] Always Spool RAW datatype