From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 5:46:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from torrent.hydro.on.ca (beck.Hydro.ON.CA [192.75.134.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD69C14F84 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 05:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jim.Service@oht.hydro.on.ca) Received: id IAA15745; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:30 -0500 Received: by gateway id IAA14582; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:37:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by gateway id IAA26423; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:37:09 -0500 Received: by gateway id ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:38:01 -0500 Message-ID: From: SERVICE Jim -TS+NP DVLPMT To: "'Marie-Josee Blais'" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Printing problem with Samba and Win NT Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:37:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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