samba - Oct 2004 - "Advanced Printer Features" in Samba 3.0.7 / Cups 1.1.20 ...

Hello,

I recently figured out, that it is impossible to activate the "Advanced
Printer Features" of any printer attached to a samba server. The idea was
simple: set up a cups print server, create raw printers, publish them via
Samba and distribute corresponding driver files. Everything works fine,
except of the general setting for the "Advanced Printer Features".
Root is
able to change the value, but it is not saved.

Searching the web made me come to the conclusion, that other users already
got in trouble with it too. As far as I can assess it, there is no solution
for this kind of problem. Does anyone know if it is agonizing any samba
developer? Is there any samba developer planning to implement these features
in near future? If not, I unfortunately have to go back to a Windows Print
Server. That would be a pity!

Best regards A. Duckert

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Duckert, 10, Kreis TF wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I recently figured out, that it is impossible to
| activate the "Advanced Printer Features" of any printer
| ttached to a samba server. The idea was simple: set up a
| cups print server, create raw printers, publish them via
| Samba and distribute corresponding driver files.
| Everything works fine, except of the general setting for
| the "Advanced Printer Features". Root is able to change
| the value, but it is not saved.
|
| Searching the web made me come to the conclusion, that
| other users already got in trouble with it too. As far as I
| can assess it, there is no solution for this kind of problem.
| Does anyone know if it is agonizing any samba developer? Is
| there any samba developer planning to implement these features
| in near future? If not, I unfortunately have to go back to a
| Windows Print Server. That would be a pity!

You should search the mailing list archives more often.  :-)
We went through this same thread 2 weeks ago.

The trhead starts here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=109636296125094&w=2

and my final reply is:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=109759835403371&w=2

So the real question is what are using missing
by using RAW printing over EMF printing?  Are clients
using UNIDRIVER print drivers ?




cheers, jerry
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Ok, jumping back into this wagon:

My problem is that with some HP drivers (Color Laserjet 5500 to be
precise) you loose printing options when EMF is disabled, while on
others (Laserjet 4000) everything works just fine. I'm talking
specifically about N-up printing here, though I'm not sure if there
are some other options missing.

I was able to get around this by using the cups PS driver, but I
couldn't make the Windows->Samba transition as transparent to our
users as I wanted. And in this particular case it's getting
troublesome to explain them why those nice dropdown options have
disapeared and why they now have to go to 3 windows to achieve the
same effect...

Still, I'm loving Samba+cups+our_custom_accounting_system and with the
queue update problem solved it will be even better!