Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:06:48 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Morgan <stewart@visint.co.uk> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: samba@samba.anu.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for samba-shared printer... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980827105946.6386B-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808250108000.434-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> Morning...
>
> Just spent this evening getting printing setup off my FreeBSD
> machine (oh, how I love Solaris at these times *groan*)...got it now so
> that I can print directly from Netscape, color and graphics and all.
>
> The printer is an HP 560c.
>
> Now, I want to be able to print from my Windoze95 machine, and
> have samba setup for that, as well as file sharing. If I setup my Windoze
> machine such that my printer is \\thelab\deskjet, which is the same
> printer (in /etc/printcap) that I use for Netscape under Unix, the test
> page gets sent across, but it isn't correct (graphic is all skewed).
If it's any help this is the setup we've got -- basically, it'
all from the Samba documentation (docs/Printing.txt I think?). Woody's
printer is an HP LaserJet 4 non-ps printer.
/etc/printcap
-----8<------
woody|Woody's Printer:\
:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/woody:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:if=/usr/scripts/PrintToWoody:
----->8------
/usr/scripts/PrintToWoody
-----8<------
#!/bin/sh -x
# This script is an input filter for printcap printing on a unix machine. It
# uses the smbclient program to print the file to the specified smb-based
# server and service.
# For example you could have a printcap entry like this
#
# smb:lp=/dev/null:sd=/usr/spool/smb:sh:if=/usr/local/samba/smbprint
(
# NOTE You may wish to add the line `echo translate' if you want automatic
# CR/LF translation when printing.
# echo translate
echo "print -"
cat
) | /usr/local/bin/smbclient "\\\\woody\\HP\ LJ" "" -U woody -N -P
----->8------
Simply change the relevent details (man smbclient(1) also helps).
Stewart Morgan
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