[cups.general] headers prevent samba printing
Alex Finch
a.finch at lancaster.ac.uk
Wed Mar 21 08:17:22 PDT 2007
As a follow up to the original problem, I thought I would try using cupsaddsmb to install the printers into samba again. However
all that happens is that cupsaddsmb takes 95% of the CPU of the machine to no effect and never stops.
Alex Finch
Alex Finch wrote:
> I have just upgraded our server to cups 1.2.8. Today I discovered that people printing via samba are just getting header pages
> printed. If I turn off the header pages then they can print. What could be wrong? The files are sitting in the spool directory,and I
> can print them with lpr ok. Samba is version 3.0.9-1.3E.12. The configuration has worked fine for years under our old version of
> cups (.1.1.17) .
>
> A typical entry in the samba configuration is
>
>
> [hp_printer]
> comment = Hewlett Packard 4250 Printer
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = yes
> public = yes
> writable = no
> printable = yes
> printer admin = root
> cups options = raw
>
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Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.
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