topic Re: Adding a printer to Samba server. in Operating System - HP-UX

Adding a printer to Samba server.

Insu Kim — Fri, 25 May 2001 03:20:35 GMT

Has anybody been successful in adding a printer to Samba server on HP-UX ?

In the manual, printcap name should be addressed but there's no that file on hp-ux unlike linux or other operating systems.
I tried several times with different ways but failed.

How can we do this in hp-ux environment?

Re: Adding a printer to Samba server.

Stefan Schulz — Fri, 25 May 2001 05:31:58 GMT

The onlinehelp says:

On System V systems that use lpstat to list available printers you can use "printcap name = lpstat"

So you don't need a printcapfile. We have several printers set up manually with no problem. When creating a printer go to the advanced view. You will see all the necessary printercommands. If you don't see your printers in the drop down list, just create one with the name of your HP-UX printer.

For HP-UX this command should look like: print command = lp -c -d%p %s; rm %s

All you have to do then is to install the necessary printer drivers on your Windows box. (There is also a option to store the necessary drivers on the Samba-Server. But we don't use this option.)

Hope this helps. Stefan

Re: Adding a printer to Samba server.

Insu Kim — Wed, 30 May 2001 07:20:12 GMT

This is what I have in smb.conf file.

[global]
......
printcap name = lpstat

[printer]
comment = Laser 5Si
path = /var/spool/lp/request/ssprt2
printer = ssprt2
printable = Yes
guest ok = Yes
printing = hpux
read only = yes
print command = /usr/bin/lp -c -d%p -o raw %s; rm %s

The printer driver has been installed properly.
but if I send a job there, it doesn't print at all.

Any thing else that I missed ?