> The short question is this. I've added a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer > to my Fedora system. How do I share this printer with Samba? > > Now let me apologize for the long, rambling and vague nature of the rest > of this post. Unfortunately, that represents my understanding of the > printing and sharing processes. > > As I said, I added a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer to my Fedora system. > It attaches with USB. I already had an Epson Stylus Photo attached by > parrallel cable. I am able to print to both printers locally. I am able > to print to the Epson remotely. However, I've been unable to print to > the Samsung remotely. > > I tried printing the same document to both printers from a Win2k laptop. > Here's what I got in the CUPS error log: > > I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 262. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 262. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Job 262 queued on 'ml-1710' by 'andrew'. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 11195) for job 262. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 11196) for job 262. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/ppmtospl2 (PID 11197) for job 262. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:48:45 -0600] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb > (PID 11198) for job 262. > W [14/Jan/2004:10:48:46 -0600] [Job 262] Media tray empty! > > I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 263. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 263. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Job 263 queued on 'stylusphoto' by > 'andrew'. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 11202) for job 263. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 11203) for job 263. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 11204) for job 263. > I [14/Jan/2004:10:49:26 -0600] Started backend > /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 11205) for job 263. > > > The media tray is not empty on the ml-1710. I can turn around and print > to it sucessfully locally. It seems like CUPS doesn't really know about > the ML-1710. > > When I installed the software from Samsung, it installed something > called the Linux Printing Package. This seems to replace lpr. When > printing from applications, it throws up a window after all the > application printing windows and I make the choice of the printer there. > I'm wondering if this is somehow interfering with the Samba sharing. > > If it's not apparent, I really don't know how to approach this problem. > Any suggestions on tracks to follow, logs to track down, anything would > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Andrew Robinson > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > hello there, i had a similar problem to my HP PSC 750 - also via USB. Some documents need printed by samba via a kind of application stream, this is not fully enabled in cups. So, my printer works now, with a small workaround: try the following, it helped for me, perhaps you have the same effect: insert in your /etc/samba/smb.conf in your [printers] part: print command = lpr -r -o raw -P %p %s lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j this tells samba to send the data in raw-format and other things. then, comment out (activate) the following lines (at the end of the files) so they look like: files: /etc/cups/mime.types and mime.convs application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - try and let us know.. cheers, Roger
