Samba printing question...

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Fri Oct 4 22:43:08 PDT 2002


Sounds like a printer filter problem, what printer driver packages are you 
using with debian 3?  Foomatic?  Omni?  Cups?

On Friday 04 October 2002 07:14 pm,  Paul Stagnoli wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I built a file and printer server for my home network using Debian 3.0 and
> samba. The printer is configured correctly, I think...
>
> # HP 842C Inkjet
>
> hp842c | lp:
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:
>     :mx#0:
>     :lp=/dev/lp0:
>     :ifhp=model=gs_cdj550
>     :filter=/usr/lib/ifhp/ifhp:
>
> However, when I send a print job from a Windoze box to the samba print
> server, I get garbage.  I think it is font related, but I am not sure.
>
> I tried installing the msttcorefont package to fix the problem, but to no
> avail.
>
> The server is not running X Windows (486/66 and 36k RAM).
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction? If you need more information,
> please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul

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Mark Street, D.C.
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