samba - Oct 2004 - MS Access XP and samba print queues

Greetings,

We are running samba 3.0.7 with cups 1.1.20 to serve printing to WinXP 
pro SP1 clients running Microsoft Access 2002

Our users are having problems "Creating reports in design view" in MS 
Access when the default printer is a samba queue.  As soon as you change 
the default printer to a non samba queue, everything works fine. 

I've been searching the archives and it seems to be a known issue with 
no definite solution. 

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=108774635206709&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=108213320206344&w=2
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2002-December/057783.html

Someone suggested setting "default devmode = yes" on the printers
share
in smb.conf but that didn't work for me.
Can someone please help with getting MS Access and a samba printer set 
to the default in XP to play nice?

thanks,
Ryan

> Our users are having problems "Creating reports in design view"
> in MS Access when the default printer is a samba queue.  As soon
> as you change the default printer to a non samba queue, everything
> works fine.
In my case this happened on one of our samba shared printers
that we forgot to initialize the printer device mode (with the
landscape/portrait apply method).  How to do this is described
in detail in the howto.  After initializing the device mode for
Samba things worked for the clients like they should.

GL,
~ Daniel

Great, that was the fix... RTFM :)

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2552636

thanks and much appreciated,
Ryan

daniel.jarboe@custserv.com wrote:
>>Our users are having problems "Creating reports in design
view"
>>in MS Access when the default printer is a samba queue.  As soon
>>as you change the default printer to a non samba queue, everything
>>works fine.
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>In my case this happened on one of our samba shared printers
>that we forgot to initialize the printer device mode (with the
>landscape/portrait apply method).  How to do this is described
>in detail in the howto.  After initializing the device mode for
>Samba things worked for the clients like they should.
>
>GL,
>~ Daniel
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