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Trying to get one Samba server to serve several printers through CUPS and host a virtual PDF "printer" at the same time. I've gotten them working separately, but not together, and I think I know why. In the smb.conf man page under "print command": "With printing = cups, and if SAMBA is compiled against libcups, any manually set print command will be ignored."

I'm trying to setup a print share with samba-2.2.4 that 9x and 2k clients should be able to print to. Below is my current setup listing only printer related options. My first concern right now is that I have cups running with the pdfdistiller script to format print jobs into pdf documents. I'm not using a real printer for this. I need samba to display the cups printer called PDF_Printer so that I can print to it from windows. Now the only driver with cups so far that I've been able to get to create a non corrupt pdf was the raw...

Hi, I created a PDFPrinter as per http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=105301236523413&w=2 I have another question, do I need to add a Color Laser Printer Driver in W2K to the PDF share to generate color PDF in Windows? Regards, Norman

...m crap at regular expressions. Real programmers might have a laugh and my error checking is non-existant, but it worked for me and may be useful to some newbie out there somewhere.... thanks goes to Michael Goffioul for writing the orginal script which i got from http://printing.kde.org/downloads/pdfdistiller and the how to posted originally to samba by Tom. i'd be interested in any feedback about how i should have used awk so i can learn. :) Regards Matthew #!/bin/sh # # This script is intended to be used as a CUPS backend, to create # PDF file on-the-fly. Just create a printer using the dev...