Windows Driver & Job Holding

[Helge Blischke]

Nick wrote:

>>
>> It actually looks like cupsaddsmb already does the doctoring of the PPD
>> file.  If I look in my /var/lib/samba/drivers directory, where my print$
>> share points, I see a PPD file for my printer.  If I search for JCL, I
>> find the following section pasted below.  This seems to indicate that the
>> PPD has the correct options, but, for some reason, these options are
>> still being ignored by CUPS.
>>
>> -Nick
>>
>>
>> *% CUPS Job Ticket support and options...
>> *Protocols: PJL
>> *JCLBegin: "%!PS-Adobe-3.0<0A>"
>> *JCLToPSInterpreter: ""
>> *JCLEnd: ""
>>
>> ...
> 
> Any other ideas, anyone?  Tried this on multiple CUPS servers, and none of
> them seem to behave as they should when the "Hold Until" option is
> selected from Windows.  All work fine when printing directly with CUPS -
> either local on the print server or remotely from other systems connected
> to the print server.  Just seems to be a disconnect between Samba and
> CUPS.
> 
> -Nick

Please try to "print" a sample file to a file on your Windows box with the 
proper hold-until option selected and post (an URL to) that file. And verify 
that the correct PPD for your printer has been installed on your Windows box 
by cupsaddsmb.

Helge