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Date: | Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:52:07 -0600 |
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My users just noticed today that the "double-sided" setting for their
printers will no longer stay saved. All of our printers are spooled
using cups through samba on SL 4.5 from WinXP clients.
There was a samba update on 11/16 to version 3.0.25b-1.el4.2. Has anyone
else noticed any problems.
Here are some more details...
On WinXP, if you go into Start->"Printers and Faxes", right-click on a
printer, and choose "Properties" you're provided a dialog that lets you
set the default properties of your printer for all applications. For
most 2-sided capable printers, you need to first tell the driver that
you have a duplex (double-sided) option installed. Then you go the the
"General" tab, click on "Printing Preferences" and on a new dialog, you
say that you want printing on both sides. If I click on "Flip on Long
Edge" the dialog will show that two-sided printing is now set up.
Clicking on "Apply" and the "OK" eventually gets me out of the dialogs.
If I go back into "Properties" for that same printer again, the "Flip on
Long Edge" option is no longer chosen and the setting is back on "None".
At first I wanted to blame a WinXP update for the problem. To show
whether or not WinXP was at fault, I added one of the printers
"directly" to a TCP port bypassing the samba (or any other) server. When
I change the printing preferences on that printer, the "Flip on Long
Edge" attribute stays selected.
Any help would be truly appreciated.
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Owen Beckley
Clarity Communication Systems
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