I don't know which software to blame. Two of my Windows XP users get an extra page of output every time they print to our HP 8500 color laserjet. The driver is in print$ on the server. I do not believe that _all_ of the XP users are having the problem, which is strange. But it's wasting a lot of paper and they are complaining. If it's SAMBA do you guys have any ideas how I can troubleshoot it? Here are my SAMBA printing details: [global] printing = cups printcap = cups printcap cache time = 60 print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r load printers = yes force printername = yes printer admin = @"Domain Admins" [print$] comment = Printer Drivers Share path = /data/samba/drivers write list = root browseable = no [printers] comment = All Printers path = /data/samba/spool public = yes guest ok = yes writeable = no printable = yes browseable = yes printer admin = @"Domain Admins" ## Specific printers that need extra permissions [acct_hp8500] copy = printers comment = "Accounting Color Laser Printer" path = /data/samba/spool/private public = no valid users = @acct @acct_admin @hr @"Domain Admins" dwayne terri danae browseable = yes Thanks for any help, Misty
If this were NetWare I'd point you at the formfeed option on the print capture (client OS side)... I can't remember if the MS client has that concept for printing at all. Else, for CUPS here I don't have a print command specified... maybe Samba is smart enough to skip that when in CUPS mode. -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems Remove the upper case letters NOSPAM to contact me directly.
I had this problem with Cups and samba and it ended up being a mis-match on the printer options. The printers were able to print duplex and the the default for CUPS on the server was duplex and the default for the windows driver was simplex (or was it the other way around? I can't recall at the moment - getting old I guess.) Anyway, once the default for CUPS and the default for MS Windows had the same setting the extra page issue went away. It was interesting because not every print job printed an extra page, only print jobs that had an odd number of pages to print generated the blank page. This was using the CUPS-Samba drivers with driver download from the print server. -Bob -- *********************************************************************** Bob Martel,System Administrator I met someone who looks a lot like you Levin College of Urban Affairs She does the things you do Cleveland State University But she is an IBM (216) 687-2214 bob@urban.csuohio.edu -Jeff Lynne ***********************************************************************
Misty Stanley-Jones
2004-Dec-08 21:10 UTC
[Samba] Re: SAMBA or CUPS printing an extra page
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 15:48, Robert M. Martel wrote:> Anyway, once the default for CUPS and the default for MS Windows had > the same setting the extra page issue went away.This was it! As soon as I turned duplex off for CUPS it stopped printing out the extra page. Thanks much! Misty> > -Bob