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Old 12-26-2008
smbclient print while preserving windows printer settings?

I have successfully gotten AIX to print to a windows shared printer with this command:

Code:
smbclient -U user%password -W domain -c "print file.ext"

the only problem is: I have this print queue set up on the Windows side to overlay an image to all pages. When printing from samba, the overlay is not applied. It does not seem to be using the windows printing preferences. The image overlay is configured at the windows driver level. Would it be possible to do this? The printer is a Ricoh Aficio MP C3500 using the RPCS driver for image overlay. Thanks
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Old 12-29-2008
Where do you specify what print queue to use?
I use smbclient for printing with following syntax (for AIX - Sambaversions 2.2 to 3.0):
Code:
smbclient //$Netbiosname/$Printqueue $Password -U $User -P -c "print $Spoolfile"

with $Netbiosname specifying the printserver and $Printqueue the queue to use.
# 3  
Old 12-29-2008
That is correct, I was typing the command from memory, sorry. I did use

Code:
smbclient //server/share -U user%password -W domain -c "print file.ext"

 
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