[lug] CUPS + ijs + samba

[Archer Sully]

On Monday 20 May 2002 21:41, John Karns wrote:
> I've been banging my head against the virtual wall for several hours
> trying to get a W98 client to print to an hp inkjet attached to my samba
> server.  I have SuSE 7.2 + CUPS + ijs installed on the server.  I am able
> to print a .ps file from the server no problem.
>

I've been having similar problems with XP and a Lexmark E312.  
It worked fine with LPRng, but it has failed so far on CUPS.

>
> The printer shows up in the printer group in msw.  I send something to the
> printer, and the job shows in the msw print queue window, then evaporates,
> but never prints.  Even when I change the CUPS loglevel to debug, nothing
> shows up in the error logs, so it seems like gs is directing the file to
> /dev/null.  Is there any way to have cups not direct to gs?
>

When I try this I get some flashing lights on the printer and then it goes
into error mode.  And, of course, never prints.  And yes, Windows is aware
that this is a PostScript printer.

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