Colin Telmer wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I posted the following message to comp.protocols.smb but I thought that > other debian users may know the solution. Any help is gratefully > appreciated. Cheers, Colin. > > comp.protocols.smb #12964 > [1] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Telmer) > [1] smbclient not form feeding? > Date: Fri May 09 19:57:44 EDT 1997 > Organization: Department of Economics, Queen's University at Kingston > Lines: 15 > > First of all, I am trying to print from my linux machine to a win95 > machine using smbclient. The server is MAIN and there are two shares, D > and HPLIII, where D is the CDROM drive and HPLIII is the printer > (obviously). I can sucessfully do > > "smbclient '\\MAIN\D' -I aa.bb.cc.dd" > > and list files, etc. so the connection is fine. However, when I try to use > the printer via > > "smbclient '\\MAIN\HPLIII' -I aa.bb.cc.dd -N -P -c 'print test.txt'" > > nothing happens until I walk over to the printer and do a manual form > feed. I made sure that I converted test.txt to dos fileformat before hand. > Any idea how to fix this?
Unfortunately, this is in fact normal. Newer printers (which print only a whole page at a time) still work like old Dot Matrix printers. They only print what you send them. They don't have a good sense of when a job is finished. You'd think this would be built into the Windows print spooler, huh? Nope. So unless you a) send a page to the printer which is exactly one whole page full or b) include a form feed character at the end of the document, it won't finish. This has nothing to do with Samba. Just tack a form-feed character onto the end of your document. You can do this with echo -e '\f' >> test.txt > On a related note, I always need to specify the ip address with the -I > switch or else I get a "ERRNO=111". Is this normal? > I don't think so. I've seen this bug before with other programs and I've yet to track it down. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
