[wellylug] Can anyone help - setting up raw print queue for Samba / JetDirect printing on Debian

[Lyndsay Mountfort]

Hi everyone

Can anyone help with setting up print services for Windows computers via 
Samba on Debian, to HP JetDirect printers. I'm working with a colleague 
to set up a Samba server for Windows file and print services for a small 
branch office.

We've tried both magicfilter and apsfilter without much success. 
Magicfilter seems to demand selection of a printer driver; we can't see 
any obvious way of setting up a raw print queue. Apsfilter seems to 
allow more options, but nothing that we've tried seems to accept print 
jobs from Windows machines.

Having succeeded in this using RedHat 7.3 and printconf-tui, we've also 
experimented with transferring the file structure that printconf creates 
(/etc/printcap, and the printer definition stuff under /var/spool 
including the perl script) to the Debian machine. At that point printing 
files directly using the lpr command produces identical (if not very 
useful) output from both machines. Copying Windows printer files to the 
Debian machine and sending that to the printer using "lpr printfile.prn" 
or similar produces good output. So it seems that it is Samba is the 
problem at that point. But even  using the smb.conf file from the RedHat 
machine on the Debian machine (changing Netbios name setting 
appropriately) doesn't get it going. File shares are working OK under 
Samba - just no printer stuff.

So that leaves two questions:

1. How do we use Debian-based tools to set up the raw print queue 
(copying the printconf structure and perl script seems a bit of a dirty 
fix), or is there an alternative tool available for Debian?

2. What is causing the problem with Samba?

I guess the other option is to simply RedHat on the server, but our 
other production Linux servers are Debian, so we'd prefer to stay with 
one distribution.

We'd be very greateful for any help anyone can offer.

Lyndsay

Lyndsay Mountfort
NZ Symphony Orchestra




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