Shared Printer Problem

[gypsydylan]

I am setting up a home network and am trying to share a printer (HP 932c, USB) that is connected to a linux box. There are many different types of boxes that will be sharing this printer. I used printtool to setup the printer and used the hpijs driver. Printing works fine from the machine with the printer (using the lpr command) but not from a remote machine. From a remote linux box i have setup the printer as remote. When I use the lpr command on the remote machine the printer on the server starts printing but garbage is printed. I also have a win2000 machine connected to the printer through samba. Printing from the win2000 machine produces garbage as well.

I've got to be really close if it is printing at all but I'm at a loss for ideas. Maybe the driver isn't quite right. Is there a better one? Any other ideas?

[cowanrl]

What I usually do when sharing a printer on a Linux box is create 2 printers. One will be used when I print locally and will be the default. It will use the proper printer driver for Linux.
The other printer will be defined as a Raw Print Queue. Set the remote machines up with the proper print driver for their operating system. Attach to the printer on your Linux server defined with the raw print queue. That way, the print jobs coming in from other machines won't be processed by the Linux machine. They are just sent unmodified to the printer.

This works for me with no problems.

[gypsydylan]

That worked perfect. No much more to say but thanks.

Linuxnewbie seems to be the best linux resource I've found.

thanks again