Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:37:50 -0500
From:      SERVICE Jim -TS+NP DVLPMT <Jim.Service@oht.hydro.on.ca>
To:        "'Marie-Josee Blais'" <mjblais@miranda.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Printing problem with Samba and Win NT
Message-ID:  <ACFC07E2E0DAD111A55F00600894C8C752B602@KEX2.RD.Hydro.ON.CA>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
You could also put :mx#0: in the Samba printer's /etc/printcap to
indicate
an unlimited print spool size.  The default size is 1M.

--Jim
OHT Inc.
Jim.Service@oht.hydro.on.ca

> Having solved my own problem :) I will answer myself for 
> whoever might have
> this problem.  To print has large files has wanted just add 
> to the print
> command -s ex. print command = lpr -s -r -h -P %p %s.  What it does is
> create a symbolic link instead of copying the file to the 
> spool directory
> and this goes around the limitation of lpr.
> 
> >Hello,
> >I'm trying to print a document from a Win NT 4.0 SP4 machine 
> to a FreeBSD
> server (2.2.7) using Samba >(2.0.2).  It's a specific file 
> that has a few
> graphics and the file generated when it prints is 1.3 >MB.  
> It prints out
> the first 3 pages OK and then on the 4th page it starts 
> printing odd lines
> and dots >instead of the text that is suppose to be there.  
> I've tested
> this on 2 different NT machines with the >same SP and also 
> the same Service
> releases for Office. Both do the same thing at the exact same 
> >place.  Now,
> I've also tried printing this document on a Win 95 machine 
> and it printed
> ok.  >Interesting fact; the Win95 print file is only 89K.  Is 
> it possible
> that there is a problem when files >are larger than 1 Meg or so ?  If
> anyone has any ideas, let me know. Thanks ! 


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?ACFC07E2E0DAD111A55F00600894C8C752B602>