[cups.general] Jobs added from Samba unloaded without printing

[Michael R Sweet]

giuseppe portelli wrote:
> I installed a Samsung CLP-300 Printer on a Debian machine.
> 
> I have 2 problems:
> 
> 1. I added the Samsung printer using the CUPS admin web page. When I try to print, I get this message: "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...".
> The only workaround I found for this error is changing the Device URI from usb://Samsung/CLP-300 to file:/dev/usb/lp0.
> Using the file:/dev/usb/lp0 URI I'm able to print.
> Do anyone has any idea why the usb://Samsung/CLP-300 URI doesn't work? Is it a problem using file:/dev/usb/lp0 URI?
> 
> 2. I've a problem printing from Windows XP using Samba. Looking inside the CUPS error_log, I found that Samba actually sends a new job to CUPS, unfortunately this job is immediately unloaded and no printing is performed.
> I compared the error_log of a job added from an application running on the same machine with the log of a job added from Samba. I guess the problem could be the different content types of the two jobs: the samba job (not working) specifies "application/vnd.cups-raw" content type, while the working job has "application/postscript" content type.
> 
> Here is the error_log of the job added from Samba (not working):

Raw printing to the file: pseudo device will not work.  The file:
device is only provided for testing (which is why we disabled it
by default...)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer