[ale] Shared Samba printer, SuSE 9.0

[Jason Day]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:42:33PM -0400, BruceG wrote:
> When I go to print from my Windows client, I get no output at all! The printer 
> works fine in CUPS (I can print from OOo and other apps on the SuSE desktop) 
> - but somehow when I cam sharing it - nothing happens.

Check your mime.types and mime.convs files and make sure you have raw
printer support enabled.  On my system, these files are in /etc/cups.
In mime.types, look for this section:

-----
########################################################################
#
# Raw print file support...
#
# Uncomment the following type and the application/octet-stream
# filter line in mime.convs to allow raw file printing without the
# -oraw option.
#

application/octet-stream
-----

And in mime.convs:
-----
########################################################################
#
# Raw filter...
#
# Uncomment the following filter and the application/octet-stream type
# in mime.types to allow printing of arbitrary files without the -oraw
# option.
#

application/octet-stream       application/vnd.cups-raw       0 -
-----

> 
> Where should I start to look to solve this? Anyone run into this problem 
> before, or is it just me?

I had this exact same problem.  Uncommenting these lines fixed it for
me.

HTH,
Jason
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