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Bug 47419 - How to print using cups
Summary: How to print using cups
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing HOWTO (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-04-10 03:28 UTC by Xavier Neys (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-04-11 06:43 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-10 03:28:25 UTC
This was emailed to me. 
In order to print with cups to a samba-shared printer, the poster says that you should comment out
"/application/octet-stream" in etc/cups/mime.types 
and
"application/octet-stream  application/vnd.cups-raw  0  -" in /etc/cups/mime.convs


I have never tried samba (USE="-samba" here).
Maybe someone can review and comment on this.

--
---- Original email in French from xgastine@yahoo.fr
--
Bonjour,

j'ignore si vous etes la bonne personne 
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-10 03:28:25 UTC
This was emailed to me. 
In order to print with cups to a samba-shared printer, the poster says that you should comment out
"/application/octet-stream" in etc/cups/mime.types 
and
"application/octet-stream  application/vnd.cups-raw  0  -" in /etc/cups/mime.convs


I have never tried samba (USE="-samba" here).
Maybe someone can review and comment on this.

--
---- Original email in French from xgastine@yahoo.fr
--
Bonjour,

j'ignore si vous etes la bonne personne à qui adresser
ce mail, mais je ne doute pas que vous saurez le 
forwarder à la bonne personne si vous le jugez
interessant.

Je me suis mis en tete de partager mon imprimante via
samba pour la rendre accessible par des clients
windows. Pour cela j'ai suivi la section samba du
guide de configuration. J'ai rencontré quelques
problèmes qui étaient du en fait à la configuration de
cups : lpr ne savait pas comment imprimer les
documents recus par le reseau.
Pour résoudre ce problème il suffit simplement de
decommenter les lignes "/application/octet-stream"
dans etc/cups/mime.types et "application/octet-stream 
      application/vnd.cups-raw        0       -" dans
/etc/cups/mime.convs.

J'imagine que cette manipulation aurait sa place dans
le guide de configuration et/ou dans le guide
d'impression, car le problème doit etre souvent
rencontré.

En espérant avoir été utile,
Xavier Gastine.
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-11 06:39:27 UTC
Actually he sais to uncomment it, not to comment out. This is also acknowledged by various SAMBA/CUPS sources I've found on the Internet.
Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-04-11 06:43:27 UTC
Fixed in CVS. Thanks!