Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 23:48:05 -0600 From: Sean O'Neill <sean@seanoneill.info> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: apsfilter printing through samba Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020329231924.00aad808@postoffice.swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20020330045107.GA98731@gforce.johnson.home> References: <200203292031354.SM00968@there> <1017437510.46170.20.camel@node1> <20020329212449.A22586@mail.clubplus.net> <20020330041434.GA1313@gforce.johnson.home> <200203292031354.SM00968@there>
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At 10:51 PM 3/29/2002 -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>In this case I want to make the printer the default printer so the name
>'lp' is assigned to it in the printcap file. That should be what is
>called if I just use 'lpr'. But I wonder if the name of the printer
>share is somehow getting intermingled.
I have this working in my environment no problem. Also, so I can print
postscript documents - my BrotherMFC isn't postscript compatible, I have
the LP printer in FreeBSD "shared" back out onto the network through
Samba. This allows me to print postscript documents to the FreeBSD machine
from laptop. FreeBSD then sends a rasterized image of the postscript
document right back into my laptop to the printer. Works great.
The following is a copy of my /etc/printcap:
# APS1_BEGIN:printer1
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
lp|hl7x0;r=600x600;q=photo;c=gray;p=letter;m=auto:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this
Something that stumped me for a while was that fact that Apsfilter is using
smbclient ... so its a SMB client. It has to authenticate itself to my
laptop which is acting in this case as the server of the printer.
To setup my printer I ran /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP, it took me a
couple of tries to get it right. After I finally got all the options
right, SETUP created the directory /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/lp (notice it
matches my printer name in /etc/printcap). In this directory, there are
two files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 239 Mar 11 23:10 apsfilterrc
-rw------- 1 daemon daemon 154 Mar 11 23:10 smbclient.conf
Contents of apsfilterrc is:
-----------------------------------
#
# don't delete these settings
#
PRINTER='hl7x0'
PAPERSIZE='letter'
METHOD='auto'
QUALITY='photo'
COLOR='gray'
RESOLUTION='600x600'
#
# additional configuration follows
# insert settings as seen in /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/apsfilterrc
#
-----------------------------------
The contents of smbclient.conf is:
SMB_SERVER='SMB Name of my laptop'
SMB_IP='' <<- I could have used this but WINS service is working correctly
through Samba - I think anyway :)
SMB_PRINTER='BrotherMFC' <<- Name of the share on my laptop
SMB_WORKGROUP='My NT domainname'
SMB_BUFFER=1400
SMB_FLAGS='-N'
SMB_USER='<my NT domain LOGIN ID>'
SMB_PASSWD='<my NT domain login password'
I think when the apsfilter script notices that the device is /dev/null
and/or the /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/lp directory has a smbclient.conf file,
it knows the printer is connected to an NT server - I haven't really looked
that hard at the apsfilter script. It then kicks off smbclient to do the
printing with all the proper switches and stuff using the smbclient.conf
file parameters.
I've always meant to write this down - it took me 20 minutes of digging
around to "figure" this all out again :( LOL
Hope this helps.
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