Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] print to printer on winxp via cups samba smb

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 9/16/06, reader@newsguy.com <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Richard, I'm sorry it seems I've really wasted lots of your time here.
> However I don't think this is the only problem.  I really hope there
> is not some other moronic user miconfig...

np.  I missed it too for several messages. :-)

> I'm still unable to print (EVEN WITH THAT CURSED URL FIXED).

I think the problem here is that my script is screwing things up.  I
actually had no idea what $0 would be in this case (thus the note that
"this is just a guess" ;-)).  It looks like when cups is calling
smbspool, $0 is the name of the program, and not the URI of the device
(see man smbspool to understand why I was uncertain here!).  And I am
changing DEVICE_URI to be whatever $0 was...which is wrong.

So the fixed script should be

------
#!/bin/bash
tmpfile=/tmp/smbspool.$$
echo $0:$1:$2:$3:$4:$5:$6:$7 > $tmpfile
env >>$tmpfile

/usr/bin/smbspool.bin $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 >>$tmpfile
------

But actually at this point I think you can just move smbspool.bin back
to smbspool, and things should work ok.

Cheers,
-Richard
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