[cups.general] FW: HELP

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Mon Jan 31 09:18:35 PST 2011


Steve Smith wrote:

> Hi
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> I wonder if anyone can help with this problem.
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> I am running SUSE V11.3 with Samba 3.5.4_4.1_2382 SUSE_SL11.3 and CUPS 1.4
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> I have created a RAW CUPS queue with the SMB option of smb://lon730/970cxi
> This is the name of the Windows machine and shared print queue.
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> My software creates print ready data and when I pause the CUPS queue the
> print job shows in the CUPS queue with the correct Name and User.
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> When I release the CUPS queue a print job shows in the Windows print queue
> and prints ok but it shows the Document name as Remote Downlevel Document
> and the Owner as Guest.
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> I really need the correct name and owner of the print job in the Windows
> print queue.
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> Using a CUPS queue with LPD I get the correct information displayed on the
> Windows print queue.
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> Steve Smith - GEO Designs Limited

I have a backend which calls smbclient instead of smbspool and logs into the 
windows box using the supplied username and renames the print job to the job 
title supplied as option to the backend.

Drop me an e-mail at h dot blischke at acm dot org if you are interested.

Helge





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