Samba madness

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Mon Jan 10 10:41:01 EST 2005


On Jan 9, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

>  I'm
> thinking that for some reason CUPS or Samba is advertising it
> incorrectly.  Any suggestions or pointers?

Getting point-and-print working on Samba is an enormous pain.

These directions do actually work (if you don't skip any steps -  
DAMHIKT)

    
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ 
printing.html#id2553196

Make sure to set the CUPS queue to raw and enable  
application/octet-stream in /etc/cups/mime.types.

Samba 3.0.x < 3.0.6 didn't work for me.

-Bill
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