Re: Printing to Windows shared printer

[Todd Davis <tdavis@msfw.com>]

Personally I find it a whole lot easier to just use printconf to
configure the printer.  I never can seem to remeber all of those
printcap parameters.

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:12, Marcelo Medici wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to configure my RH8 machine to print to a Windows share. I am
> using samba-2.2.7-4.8.0. I have LPD and CUPS both installed. 
> 
> I created a smbprint.sysv file in /etc/samba. The only parts of it I have
> edited are:
> 
> server   = ERIC901
> service  = LASER
> password = "xxxxxxxx"
> 
> I then tried to add this printer using lpadmin:
> 
> lpadmin -p samsung_printer -v /dev/null -i /etc/samba/smbprint.sysv
> 
> Although the file does get added /etc/printcap, I receive an error when
> restarting lpd:
> 
> Starting lpd: Warning - samsung_printer: 'no :rm, :lp, or :sv entry'
> Warning - samsung_printer: Bad printcap entry - missing 'sd' or 'client'
> entry?
> 
> I read through `man printcap` and I can see the explanation of each of
> these keywords, however I'm not certain of what their values should be.
> Can someone lend a hand on configuring this?
> 
> Thank You.
> 
> 
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Todd Davis (tdavis@msfw.com)
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