Cups printer names

Hello, i need some help :).
It happens that i'm installing arch in a small bussiness, as a small file server, backup server (rsync data from windows machines) and printer server, everything is working ok, but i've a small problem: Printer names: Using samba, hal (i presume) and cups, the printers are detected as "NAME_OF_PRINTER_XX_TH45643463_A.K.A.GARBAGE". Now the problem is that there's some notebooks in the system without NT machines (yeah... win9x) that doesn't support long names of shares. Is there a way to force a name for the printers?? It seems that cups doesn't provide that options and my knowledge of arch in this topic is not really good. (note that everything is working as expected, except this issue... and no... http://server:631 as a local port in windows is not an option)
Thanks in advance, and sorry about my english.
J.
Last edited by stargeizer (2007-10-10 01:51:25)

I think the easiest way to share linux printers with windows, is Samba. After you install samba, there is a setting in the config file to allow sharing of CUPS printers. Give it a shot.

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Actually the issue you are facing was identified as a bug and was fixed in Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1 FixPack 2.2.
Please go through the SAP Note: 1417374 - Error "Printer name could not be set" when printing using the RAS SDK.
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How to find out the printer name for the Idoc

Hi guys
I want to find out the printer name for the Idoc,,some default printer is attached for one idoc,then how can we see the printer name for this idoc.
Regards
Madhoo

Hi,
For ALE/IDOC the medium will be either ALE or EDI but not printer.So it might be wrongly attached.As such there won't be any printer attached to idoc.
Regards,
Nagaraj

What are the icons next to the printer name in the print sheet?

Ever since I upgraded to OS X Lion, I have noticed something different in the print dialogue. First the technical info: I am using a 2009 Mac Mini (4 GB RAM, OS 10.7.3) and I have a couple of printers that I use - one is a Brother laser printer (shared from an iMac, running 10.6.8) and a Canon Pixma Pro 9000, connected via USB to a Time Capsule.
When I hit Command-P to bring up the print sheet, I now get icons on the left hand side of some of the printer names in the printer list. One looks like a road sign - diamond shaped with a walking person in it, and the other is a circle with a wavy line (tilde?) in it. The other printer names have no icons next to them. I gather that the circle-and-tilde means "printer not available" (or something similar) - even though the printer is there!!! And then I wonder why the other printer names have no icons, and I have no clue what the "walking person" sign means.
I'm adding a couple of images so you all can see what I'm talking about:
What do these icons mean? I can find NO reference to them - even in Apple's knowledge base article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4670 - this just looks like the screen shots from the 10.6 Snow Leopard page. I looked in the OS X Lion Missing Manual, but it has the same screen shots with no explanation of the icons.
This is pretty minor, but it's been bugging me for a while. Any explanation or reference to these icons would be appreciated!
Richard
Message was edited by: Richard Williams Jr (had to correct the link!)

Richard Williams Jr wrote:
Wow, impressive, thank you! Is there a listing or other resource available that can tell me what all these symbols mean? Or are they the only ones?
This Mac 101: Printing article mentions some of the icons you will see in 10.6. And there is also the Mac 101: Printing article for Lion that shows some symbols. Neither show the icon you are seeing for the Brother but this is icon has been around for a while and used for warnings/information alerts.

Printer name with non-ASCII character

Is it possible to name a printer using ISO-8859-1 (or WINLATIN1) characters?
Our business system has logical printer names defined, sometimes using Norwegian (and Danish) letters (AE-lig, O-slash and A-ring), which we would like to map to the correct Windows UNC paths.
Mapping to a UNC path containing one of these characters works fine. But if the printer name itself contains a non-ASCI ISO character it fails.
Example using BÆR (B AE-lig R):
!p BÆR * \\print\bærum * 50 *
Don't know how the log will look after posting, but I'll try:
jfserver.exe: [400]D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Data\Test.dat : ^job TEST -zBÆR -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos"
jfserver.exe: [400] ^JOB formname='TEST' printername='B'
jfserver.exe: [400]Scanning !f for candidates
jfserver.exe: [400]Mapped printer name 'B' to id 'R' dev '*'
jfserver.exe: [400]Other job tokens before substitution 'R -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos"'
jfserver.exe: [400]Other job tokens after substitution'R -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos"'
jfserver.exe: [400]Merge parms before substitution '\\printer\b'
jfserver.exe: [400]Merge parms after substitution'\\printer\b'
jfserver.exe: [400]Task parms before substitution '"test.mdf" "D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Data\Test.dat" -l -apr"" -all"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfserver.log" -asl1 -amq0 -ams"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Mst\R.mst" -m2T -z"*" \\printer\b R -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos" -aii"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfmerge.ini"'
jfserver.exe: [400]Task parms after substitution '"test.mdf" "D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Data\Test.dat" -l -apr"" -all"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfserver.log" -asl1 -amq0 -ams"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Mst\R.mst" -m2T -z"*" \\printer\b R -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos" -aii"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfmerge.ini"'
jfserver.exe: [400]"test.mdf" "D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Data\Test.dat" -l -apr"" -all"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfserver.log" -asl1 -amq0 -ams"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Mst\R.mst" -m2T -z"*" \\printer\b R -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos" -aii"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfmerge.ini"
jfserver.exe: [307]Launching task '"D:\Adobe\Central\Bin\jfmerge" "test.mdf" "D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Data\Test.dat" -l -apr"" -all"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfserver.log" -asl1 -amq0 -ams"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Mst\R.mst" -m2T -z"*" \\printer\b R -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos" -aii"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfmerge.ini"'.
jfmerge: [125]* Processing data file: 'D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Data\Test.dat'.
jfmerge: [289]MDF file `D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms\test.mdf' opened.
jfmerge: [400]The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
jfmerge: [2]Error opening output device/file '*'.
jfmerge: [210]Nothing was printed.
jfserver.exe: [314]Agent exit message: [2]Error opening output device/file '*'.
jfserver.exe: [400]spawned '"D:\Adobe\Central\Bin\jfmerge" "test.mdf" "D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Data\Test.dat" -l -apr"" -all"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfserver.log" -asl1 -amq0 -ams"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\Mst\R.mst" -m2T -z"*" \\printer\b R -afp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\forms" -alp"D:\Adobe\Central\Samples\Exprint\logos" -aii"D:\Adobe\Central\Server\jfmerge.ini"'
jfserver.exe: [400]--> returned [-2] [2]Error opening output device/file '*'..

For others who might have the same problem. You can solve it by quoting the device name and/or printer name.
!p """BÆR""" * """\\print\bærum""/q" * 50 *
This, however, causes the printer name to be '"BÆR"' with the double quotes included in the name. Thus, the job card must contain the unfortunate tripple quotes as well: -z"""BÆR""".
Vegard

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