samba - Jan 2007 - solved: Re: Letter instead of A4 with driver installed via Samba's Point'n'Print

Chris Smith schrieb:

>>On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:51, you wrote:
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>>>>Yes, and it printed already correctly as a remote printer from
Linux and
>>>>OS X. Page Size is set to A4.
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>>Hmmm...cups updates the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd/ when the printer options
are set
>>ans I'm reasonably sure, but not certain, that it uses that ppd as a
base
>>when doing cupsaddsmb. Maybe there's an old version 
>>in /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86 or wherever your distro puts it.
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>>Regardless you should be able to set the defaults via Windows by
drilling down
>>the printers folder on the server, right click on printer, choose
properties,
>>then from the Advanced tab select the box 'Printing Defaults...'
and
>>continue.
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>>Chris
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After I repeated cupsaddsmb I must have missed the correct menu in
Windows to set the paper size. Since I set it in any menu I could find
and tested printing with a brand new untouched Windows client everthing
is fine and really works without any user intervention! Thank you.

Kay

Kay Obermueller schrieb:
>Chris Smith schrieb:
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>>>On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:51, you wrote:
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>>>>>Yes, and it printed already correctly as a remote printer
from Linux and
>>>>>OS X. Page Size is set to A4.
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>>>Hmmm...cups updates the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd/ when the printer
options are set
>>>ans I'm reasonably sure, but not certain, that it uses that ppd
as a base
>>>when doing cupsaddsmb. Maybe there's an old version 
>>>in /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86 or wherever your distro puts it.
>>>
>>>Regardless you should be able to set the defaults via Windows by
drilling down
>>>the printers folder on the server, right click on printer, choose
properties,
>>>then from the Advanced tab select the box 'Printing
Defaults...' and
>>>continue.
>>>
>>>Chris
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>After I repeated cupsaddsmb I must have missed the correct menu in
>Windows to set the paper size. Since I set it in any menu I could find
>and tested printing with a brand new untouched Windows client everthing
>is fine and really works without any user intervention! Thank you.
>
>Kay
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Unfortunately this issue is still unsolved. But I had no time for the last
weeks. Now I got the HP Laserjet 2200 reinstalled onto Samba and made it print
A4 per default after first installation on a windows client but not the Minolta
Magicolor 2200. That one showed A4 in it's properties, but still tried to
print Letter on first printout. (I even thought on manipulating the little
switch behind it's paper tray...)
Also setting defaults on the server doesn't work. And that would help very
much.
What had an influence was to reinstall the HP Laserjets from a console in wich
locales were set to de_DE.UTF-8 instead POSIX. Why not for the Magicolor?

Kay