samba-bsd printing

[Pierre-philipp Braun <pbraun%nethence.com@localhost>]

Hi there,

I've got a good'old LaserJet 4L printer I would like to continue to use, 
and possibly shared from a BSD system.  To me, a good way to configure 
the printer for Windows clients appears to be using a raw printer entry 
in /etc/printcap and use the official or windows provided drivers on the 
clients, directly.  Those drivers can also be uploaded and made 
available through samba for a quick printer installation on the clients.

For now I am simply using the 'lp' printcap entry on the bsd host and it 
works pretty good as raw printer already.  However each time I print 
something from a windows clients I get an additional blank page.  Does 
anyone have a similar experience?  Should I dig into either printcap, 
the samba configuration or something else?

Here's the printcap configuration:
raw|raw printer:\
        :sh:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
just the same as 'lp' but the spool dir.  sh: is usefull.

Here's the samba configuration:
[raw]
    printable = yes
    print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P%p -r %s
    printer = raw
    printing = bsd
    path = /var/tmp
I am not sure about the path for the printer, is it supposed to point to 
the spool dir?


Thanks,

Pierre-Philipp