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tusharkant15
Asked: 2015-12-22 20:17:13 +0800 CST

Samba shared printer prints garbage

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I have a printer connected to my Ubuntu 14.04 desktop which I share with other computers in my network using Samba. This setup works correctly with Ubuntu machines as well as Windows 8 machines. However I have a windows 7 laptop which detects the printer on the network and configures it but when I print something it prints out a bunch of text Similar to

@PJL COMMENT USERNAME="xyz"
@PJL COMMENT DOCNAME="Test Page"
@PJL SET COPIES=1
@PJL SET COLORMODE=MONO
.......

It prints the similar thing no matter what I print. Also I had installed Fedora 23 some time ago on the machine and setup the printer with it and in that setup the windows 7 machine could print without problems. However Fedora comes with it's own set of problems and going back to it isn't an option.

The printer is Samsung ML 2161. I have the drivers for it installed on the Windows machine and it obviously work on Ubuntu.

Any pointers as to what is wrong here?

14.04

1 Answers

  1. It sounds like you may need a newer version of Samba.

    Ubuntu 14.04's default PPAs include Samba4.1. Here's my server's feedback on sudo apt-get install samba:

    user@host:~$ sudo apt-get install samba
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  attr libhdb9-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal python-dnspython samba-dsdb-modules
  samba-vfs-modules tdb-tools
Suggested packages:
  ldb-tools smbldap-tools winbind
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  attr libhdb9-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal python-dnspython samba
  samba-dsdb-modules samba-vfs-modules tdb-tools
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,515 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Selecting previously unselected package libhdb9-heimdal:amd64.
(Reading database ... 105333 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libhdb9-heimdal_1.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libhdb9-heimdal:amd64 (1.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1) ...
and blahblahblah
user@host:~$

    So it appears that samba4.1's PPA comes with Ubuntu 14.04.

    Here's the Samba 4.3 PPA: https://launchpad.net/~exekias/+archive/ubuntu/samba43.

    Install the PPA, then you should be able to get Samba 4.3.

    Try purging your current samba install and reinstalling.

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