Hi
I’m running Samba 2.2.8a on a UnixWare 7.1.3 (SP 3) box. I’d set up the Samba printer shares, and it seemed to be working fine (only live for a couple of weeks). However, I’ve just added some heavy users, and the printer daemon keeps bombing out. I’d configured the printers to use lpr, but someone suggested I should use lp, so I thought I’d give this a go at the weekend.
The printers are TCP/IP on Axis print servers. I’ve set them up in UnixWare as type ‘other’ and routing through to the correct IP address. A SCO person told me to do the following
lpadmin –p <printer-name> -I “pcl raw”
lpshut
lpsched
He then said to run ‘lpadmin –p –l | pg’ to check the filter is available, but I don’t know what this is supposed to do – I get an error saying “The names “any” “all” and “non” are reserved”.
In smb.conf I have
[global]
printing = lp
[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
printable = yes
browseable = yes
print command = lp –c –d%p –o raw %s; rm %s
If I run ‘lp –c –d printername –o raw –o nobanner test.txt’ UnixWare prints the file, but at the top left hand corner it prints
‘Jul 10 16:45 2004 Page 1’
If I print a Word document through the Samba share, I get two pages. The first is blank apart from ‘Jul 10 16:45 2004 Page 1’ in the top left hand corner (printed in default Courier font or similar). The second page is the actual Word test document, but in the bottom left hand corner it says ‘Jul 10 16:45 2004 Page 2’ in the same font as that used for the rest of the Word document (Arial).
I don’t know what’s causing this ‘banner’ or page header/footer. I’ve been looking at the lp scripts etc, but I can’t see anything obvious, but I don’t really know what UnixWare is doing with the print request. I’m also not sure if it’s something to do with the ‘raw’ filter not being there, but I would have thought that if that was the case, then I’d get garbage or nothing at all.
Thanks in advance
David
I’m running Samba 2.2.8a on a UnixWare 7.1.3 (SP 3) box. I’d set up the Samba printer shares, and it seemed to be working fine (only live for a couple of weeks). However, I’ve just added some heavy users, and the printer daemon keeps bombing out. I’d configured the printers to use lpr, but someone suggested I should use lp, so I thought I’d give this a go at the weekend.
The printers are TCP/IP on Axis print servers. I’ve set them up in UnixWare as type ‘other’ and routing through to the correct IP address. A SCO person told me to do the following
lpadmin –p <printer-name> -I “pcl raw”
lpshut
lpsched
He then said to run ‘lpadmin –p –l | pg’ to check the filter is available, but I don’t know what this is supposed to do – I get an error saying “The names “any” “all” and “non” are reserved”.
In smb.conf I have
[global]
printing = lp
[printers]
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
printable = yes
browseable = yes
print command = lp –c –d%p –o raw %s; rm %s
If I run ‘lp –c –d printername –o raw –o nobanner test.txt’ UnixWare prints the file, but at the top left hand corner it prints
‘Jul 10 16:45 2004 Page 1’
If I print a Word document through the Samba share, I get two pages. The first is blank apart from ‘Jul 10 16:45 2004 Page 1’ in the top left hand corner (printed in default Courier font or similar). The second page is the actual Word test document, but in the bottom left hand corner it says ‘Jul 10 16:45 2004 Page 2’ in the same font as that used for the rest of the Word document (Arial).
I don’t know what’s causing this ‘banner’ or page header/footer. I’ve been looking at the lp scripts etc, but I can’t see anything obvious, but I don’t really know what UnixWare is doing with the print request. I’m also not sure if it’s something to do with the ‘raw’ filter not being there, but I would have thought that if that was the case, then I’d get garbage or nothing at all.
Thanks in advance
David