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In the past I've set up a pdf creation utility for windows users based on the info from http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html I.E I've got [pdf-printer] path = /tmp printable = yes guest ok = yes print command = /usr/bin/printpdf %s comment = PDF Writer In my smb.conf and have created a print queue on the windows machine with a postscript driver. The windows box submits the print jo...

Hi, all. I'm trying to create a PDF queue... or, rather, I already have a homebrew solution I hacked together with an lprng filter, and it doesn't work too well. The solution at www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html, which uses the smb.conf and "print command" paramaters, appears to be much more elegant, but has one major shortfall: I don't see any way to get the filename of the file I'm printing. The jobname gives me: For websites: the URL (which is great) For apps (eg. Word):...

Hello Everyone, I have a slight issue with configuring a PDF printer on my Samba servers. I have input the following into my smb.conf file and it does create the printer as well as work to create PDF files, except that it only functions when "printing" to that printer via Excel 2002. If I attempt it with anything else, even the Windows Test print, it fails. Now, in the Windows

...and": "With printing = cups, and if SAMBA is compiled against libcups, any manually set print command will be ignored." My PDF printer relies on a print command field (print command = /usr/bin/printpdf %s) as recommended in the PDF printer howto here: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html So is it possible to use CUPS and a "print command" in the same Samba server? Why are print commands ignored anyway? Thanks in advance for any responses. -Tom

Hello =) I got some problem configuring a pdf printer and make windows to download automagically drivers from [print$] share on my samba 3.0.1 server. Well, I've configured a pdf printer (based on this doc: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html), tested it and it works pretty well =) To install the printer on windows side, I connect to the host, browse to samba server, right-click on the printer and select "connect". Windows then ask me to install appropriate drivers. I choose postscript drivers and install them. Th...