Hi,
Does anybody have a working interface for printing over SMB to WindowsNT?
I tried using the interface below, but xpdq fails silently and I don't
know what's wrong. I have a PostScript (LaserJet 4000N) on the other
side that works fine with Cups, but my Linux machine is really old and
slow (P150 with 32Mb or RAM) and cupsys takes almost 5 MB or RAM, so I
really want to get xpdq working. I have to authenticate myself by
providing my password as smbclient tries to access the printer share on
the WinNT machine. Any ideas?
Alex.
[lp.hp] A samba interface for PDQ, tested with HP OfficeJet
Dan Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:45:14 -0500
Hi,
I just went to try xpdq across SMB to my HP OfficeJet,
but I saw:
[[[
Printers connected to a Windows machine are
not currently supported, though it should be simple to
write a (1 line, I think!) pdq driver using the
"smb_print" utility. I don't have a network to
test this on. Someone please create one and share it!
]]]
-- The pdq homepage [@@probably not the title you meant]
http://pdq.sourceforge.net/drivers.html
Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:54:04 GMT
Indeed, it was a simple one line of code in the
right place. Attached find a samba driver
that I just cooked up in a few minutes.
Share and enjoy!
HOWTO:
1. make sure your samba client setup is
working. test with
smbclient //your_server/your_printer -c "print -" </etc/motd
(see below for what software to install to get
this far)
2. Stick the attached interface in /etc/pdq/interfaces
(if you're not root, I suppose there's someplace
else you can put it... I dunno.)
3. Fire up xpdq and choose Printer/add printer.
When you get to the choice of interfaces, choose samba,
then supply //your_server/your_printer
4. print away!
I suppose there are all sorts of ways that it can fail
silently. I hate that, but I'll let the next guy fix
those problems as they arise.
I just tested it using:
server:
Win98 box
printer: HP OfficeJet 330
client:
Linux version 2.2.17
smbclient Version 2.0.7
xpdq version 2.2.1
cdj550 driver
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=cdj550
GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17)
filename="samba-0.1"
interface samba {
help "The samba interface requires smbclient.
contributed by Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
$Id: samba-0.1,v 1.1 2000/10/09 20:22:59 root Exp root $ "
requires "smbclient" # This is part of the samba pagkage, in the debian
smbclient package, in particular
required_args "SMB_PRINTER_NAME"
argument {
var = "SMB_PRINTER_NAME"
desc = "Windows printer name"
help = "This is the NetBIOS name of the printer
in //server/service format.
try smbclient -L \\\\machine to find some printers.."
}
send_exec { smbclient "$SMB_PRINTER_NAME" -c "print -" <$INPUT }
#status_exec {}
#cancel_exec {}
}
