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...s IE: declare all samba jobs of type pcl and all HPs capable of type pcl. Instead of the lpadmin command you could edit the /etc/lp/printers/printername/configuration file and set: Content types: simple,postscript,pcl Then lpshut; lpsched the system. I also have pcl2ps installed using lpfilter. It's a perl filter I wrote that strips pcl headers off the postscript jobs created by the postscript HP drivers allowing them to be printed on postscript printers. Hope this is of some use, michaelj

...at pcl2ps.fd # pcl2ps.fd filter description # Converts samba jobs to clean postscript # ( if the printer can't handle PCL ) # # michael.james@email.net.au 21/6/99 Input types: pcl Output types: postscript Printer types: any Printers: any Filter type: fast Command: /opt/samba/bin/pcl2ps EOF lpfilter -f pcs2ps -F /etc/lp/fd/pcl2ps.fd And that's it. The /opt/samba/bin/pcl2ps script is a bit of perl that scans the first 10 lines looking for a postscript header. If it finds one it strips anything in front of it including ^D and anything after %%EOF If it can't find postscript headers i...

Hiya, Can someone explain why I am seeing chmod of W32X86/3/PSCRIPT5.DLL failed (Operation not permitted) in the log files. It is a samba 3.0.1pre3 print server, which has the drivers on it for loading to the clients. Here is the log file of errors. Thanx in advanced Kris [2003/11/27 16:29:15, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(250) aclarke opened file W32X86/3/PSCRIPT.HLP read=Yes write=No