On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:57:35AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > The solution then is to set up a printer in printcap that does not use > magicfilter but instead just passes the raw data straight to the > printer. > Then use this printer as the share printer exported by samba. Windows > is > already taking care of all the formatting, printer definition, etc. via > the > printer driver. All samba has to do is pass it on to the printer > without > trying to process it.
I have never found magicfilter to interfere with this though. I have a PCL5 HP5L, and I print through samba to the same printer which I print to on linux with lpr, with magic filter -- no problem. From memory I did the same with my ESC2P bubblejet 20 before that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
