I got CUPS printing to Windows via LPD and SMB, but PDF Virtual printer not working.

[Frank Peng]

In case some guys are still struggling to get Windows
print for Linux, here are some tricks I learnt:

Some older CUPS do not have SMB support, you have to
make it this way:

ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb as
root.

The character ` is not the single quote sign. It is
the one at left upper corner under ~. Not the one with
".

Another thing is:

chmod a+rw /var/spool/samba

Third thing is, when you add a printer from cups via
631 port, you need add an user name password to use
windows printer. Like this:
smb://Administrator:<pass_word_for_Administrator>@windows_computer_name/printer_name

For CUPS with LPD to Windows, you need turn on the
Windows' "UNIX printing" service first.
Then add the printer from CUPS 631:
LPD://WINDOWS_COMPUTER_NAME/PRINTER_NAME.

Now I am trying to install a virtual PDF printer on
the linux box. My device URL is cups-pdf:/ 
This looks not right. Any one has success please drop
a couple of lines. Thanks a lot!

Frank Peng.




		
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