remote printing using samba cups fails for pdf files

[Armin Oonk]

I have a small server with a printer (HP Officejet PRO K550) connected to it. I have shared this printer using samba with the rest of the network (Windows 7 pc's). I use the hpcups 3.12.2 driver.

The problem is that I can not print pdf files from the windows 7 pc. I can however print any other type of file (MS Word, png) from the windows pc. Also when I am on the server, I can print pdf files. When I look in the cups job list I can not see a job when I try to print a pdf file over the internet.

There are no entries in the samba log files (log.smbd & log.nmbd) or the cups log files (access_log & error_log) around the time I try to print a pdf from my windows pc.

lsb_release -rd:

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

samba:
  Installed: 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3
  Candidate: 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
     2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

cups:
  Installed: 1.5.3-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1.5.3-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.3-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.5.2-9ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

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[Armin Oonk (p-armvn-f)]

Oke fixed it.

In the samba config file I added: use client driver = yes which seems to solve the problem. The real problem is that there are no reports in any of the log file which could indicate what the problem is.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Problem got solved by a change in the Samba configuration, so this seems to be most probably a Samba problem. Moving ...

[Sebastiaan (saturnusdj)]

This fixes the issue for me too. Thanks for posting.