Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I
printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried
to print other formats through gv and open-office.
Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below.
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
#rp|remote line printer:\
# :lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
lp|hpoffice:rp=hpoffice:rm=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null:
Personally, I've found it easier to just install an LPR daemon
on Windows itself. I had a similar problem of trying to print
to a printer connected to a Windows box, and I have yet to find
any solution with, eg Samba or otherwise, to print to it over SMB.
At least on Windows XP, there is a "Add/Remove Windows Components" in
the control panel that allows you to install an LPR daemon (which is
not installed by default), and pretty much anything can print to it
after that. Maybe the situation will work better if you run Windows
2003 or 2008, but I'm not familiar with that case.
