Samba Printer prints gibberish
I'm having trouble getting my Laserjet 1100 (using the ljet4 driver) to print a test page from Windows 95. Printing from Linux is normal. I am using standard lpr, not lprng or cups. I am using Samba 2.0.7. I got Windows to see the printer through the network, but it prints gibberish. Actually it doesn't print straight gibberish but the bytes sent to the printer as ascii characters. I can recognize the text mixed among the other characters. [printers] printing = BSD ; print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r %s print command = /usr/bin/lpr printcap name = /etc/printcap guest ok = yes browseable = no printable = true public = yes read only = yes create mode = 0700 Does anyone know a resource for me to fix this? I have the O'Reilly book but it has been less than helpful. -- Go climb a gravity well!
I would like to set up a small lan at my home office. Have the hardware, seems to be working. Can't get the Suse 7.1 server to serve. I'm a complete beginner, all the man and help files I can find don't start at the beginning for me to find the problem. Any advice on files or sites that do a step by step setup? I want the SuSe machine to be the server. Clients are mostly w98. Is this possible? Any ideas for a completely ignorant beginner? David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
David; There are dozens of places to look, first thing I would suggest you do is make the Firewall and NAT work.....install the Firewall package (upgrade it to current) and read the docs on that. If you are new to Linux and Samba (Package to share with Windows) try installing Swat (On SuSE) and you should have no trouble setting up a simple share for the Wintel systems. Regards, Jon On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, David wrote:
I would like to set up a small lan at my home office. Have the hardware, seems to be working. Can't get the Suse 7.1 server to serve. I'm a complete beginner, all the man and help files I can find don't start at the beginning for me to find the problem. Any advice on files or sites that do a step by step setup? I want the SuSe machine to be the server. Clients are mostly w98. Is this possible? Any ideas for a completely ignorant beginner?
David
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Hi www.pcquest.com/may98 shows a step-by-step example on how to set up a linux office server. I hope this helps, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:dvalyou@yahoo.com] Sent: 18 April 2001 22:29 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] need network advise I would like to set up a small lan at my home office. Have the hardware, seems to be working. Can't get the Suse 7.1 server to serve. I'm a complete beginner, all the man and help files I can find don't start at the beginning for me to find the problem. Any advice on files or sites that do a step by step setup? I want the SuSe machine to be the server. Clients are mostly w98. Is this possible? Any ideas for a completely ignorant beginner? David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Tim,
I'm having trouble getting my Laserjet 1100 (using the ljet4 driver) to print a test page from Windows 95. Printing from Linux is normal. I am using standard lpr, not lprng or cups. I am using Samba 2.0.7.
I got Windows to see the printer through the network, but it prints gibberish. Actually it doesn't print straight gibberish but the bytes sent to the printer as ascii characters. I can recognize the text mixed among the other characters.
[printers] printing = BSD ; print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r %s print command = /usr/bin/lpr printcap name = /etc/printcap guest ok = yes browseable = no printable = true public = yes read only = yes create mode = 0700
Does anyone know a resource for me to fix this? I have the O'Reilly book but it has been less than helpful.
There was a recent discussion about similar problems on the list. In the first instance I would check which version of Samba you are running. The version that comes with SuSE 7.1 (Samba 2.0.7-107) appears to cause problems with printing. The version that came with SuSE 7.0 (Samba 2.0.7-72) seems to work. So if you have the newer version it is worth going to ftp.suse.com and downloading the Samba rpms for SuSE 7.0. Hope this helps, Mark
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mark Daglish wrote:
Tim,
I'm having trouble getting my Laserjet 1100 (using the ljet4 driver) to print a test page from Windows 95. Printing from Linux is normal. I am using standard lpr, not lprng or cups. I am using Samba 2.0.7.
I got Windows to see the printer through the network, but it prints gibberish. Actually it doesn't print straight gibberish but the bytes sent to the printer as ascii characters. I can recognize the text mixed among the other characters.
What has worked for me, is to install the normal windows printer driver on the windows machine. Then set up samba to share the 'raw' print queue. That way the windows box generates the PCL, and all samba has to do is pass it on, without any further filtering.
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