CUPS PDFs Samba = fun times

[Helge Blischke]

bagg at kmfms.com wrote:
> 
> I have setup a PDF printer for the users to print to. I followed the
> how to here
> http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?s=32c0c49ffbfea1308157ec7158f510a5&showtopic=11480&st=0&p=165555&#entry165555
> 
> Everything works great, except the naming of the pdf file. When a
> document is submited it changes the name of the file from whatever.txt
> to user-04Jan123299.pdf. The problem with this is, that we have 2 user
> accounts for the samba share and about 70 people that need to print to
> it. If more than one person prints off a couple documents this naming
> scheme could be very confusing.
> 
>  Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Look at the CUPS site's links and search for "pdf". You'll get (I think)
3 or 4
hits. Look at those, some provide means to use the print job's title in
addition
to the user name to construct the PDF filename.

Helge

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