Re: [SLUG] SAMBA + CUPS integration

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Steve Kowalik">

> At 11:12 pm, Wednesday, December 12 2001, Jeff Waugh mumbled:
> > So, from reading the documentation for new versions of SAMBA, it sounds like
> > you can simply put "printing = cups" into smb.conf and let SAMBA sort out
> > which printers are available from CUPS.
> 
> Well, from what I read when I ran CUPS, you still had to add the printers
> yourself, but since CUPS evidently doesn't like the BSD commands, you need
> other ways of printing.

cupsys-bsd (Debian) provides the bsd-style printing compatibility.

According to <http://www.cups.org/sam.html#8_6>, the cups stuff is
automagic. But this document <http://www.buberel.org/linux/cups-samba.php>
implies that you have to use the bsd-compatible stuff as well, which is what
I'm doing at the moment (same setup, looking over it again).

Is the automagic stuff all total bollocks, or am I expecting too much
automagic? :)

[ With only printing = cups, no printers appear. With the rest of it,
printers appear as normal. I'm starting to think my expectations are too
high, and the cups.org document is wrong. ]

- Jeff

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