On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:30:01PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: | First I've inslalled samba* and cups* debs to my woody box. | I tried to share some folders with samba and it worked fine. | well, my printer Epson LQ 100+ ESC/P2 is found on /dev/lp0
Is that a line printer or an inkjet? | /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p EpsonLQ -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m epson24.ppd I think those epson drivers are for line printers, not inkjets. | whouu, it's printing, but the resolution is terrible. If it's an inkjet, I'm not too surprised. Did you install the cupsys-driver-gimpprint and the cupsomatic-ppd packages? | Wanted to edit some config, but I cant find any. Where are | stored information about my printer??? Which file I have to edit? Point a web browser at http://localhost:631/ The web interface is really convenient and it will list all the available drivers. Pick the one that is closest to your model. | Finaly, on cups.org i find how to make cups and samba work together. | I added this lines to my smb.conf | | printing = cups | load printers = yes Good | printcap name = cups Is that where your printcap is? Likely not. Here's the relevant portions of my smb.conf : [global] printing = cups load printers = yes ; ; A "magic" section. ; [printers] comment = All Printers available = yes directory = /tmp printable = yes public = yes writable = yes create mode = 0666 browseable = yes guest ok = yes guest account = nobody The other day I noticed that with /etc/printcap non-existant, my printers didn't exist. I created the "bogus" printcap by modifying the line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to be Printcap /etc/printcap and restarting cups. The printcap for me looks like : canon: ljet: raw_lp: thermal: (that is, it is just a place holder for the names so that apps that parse the the printcap to find printers will find the names. HTH, -D -- THe lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. Proverbs 16:33
