Hi all,

Here is my setup:

redhat 8.0 ( been running samba for over 2 years, no problems)
netgear ps110 with the following printers connected:

HP Laserjet 5P
HP Deskjet 812C

CUPS installed and configured on redhat 8.0

I did have a Windows 2000 server running as my PDC and serving my
printers out, but I'm wanting to go away from the windows solution and
I have successfully gotten redhat 8.0 with samba to behave like my
PDC. I'm trying to get the printers to work correctly:

I have configured CUPS and I can successfully print to both printer
from within the cups web admin tool ( localhost:631). The test pages
come out perfectly.

When I try to print from a unix shell via a command like:

lp -d hp5p foo.txt

either blank pages come out ( I should only have one page ) or it's
badly aligned and causing this.

I did run the printer switching tool and I am confident that cups is
running and not lpd.

On a side note, I configured samba to serve these printers out to the
windows network, but I can't seem to get the drivers to load from the
samba server. As instructed in samba's manpages, I created a share
named print$ and connected to it as a privliged user, when I try to
load the print drivers to one of the printers, I get an error like the
operation could not be completed.

I can live with this last problem since I know I can load the printer
drivers locally, but would like to figure this out.

I really would like to know why I can't print from the unix shell
whereas I can print flawlessly from the CUPS tool.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance
John

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