[Breezy v5.10] HP ljet 1200 drivers and sharing over samba

[Troy Piggins]

I have a HP Laserjet 1200 connected via parallel port to a Breezy
box, and am having 2 problems with printing.

system->administration->printing->new printer detected the printer
and it's installed.

The first problem is chosing which driver to use.  Postscript or
not?  Which is better and why?  Then there are multiple choices once
you make that decision.  [1] below are the results of me testing all
of them.

I've chosen HP(HPLIP) Laserjet 1200 hpijs for now.

The second problem is sharing this thing via samba.  I've added it
to smb.conf [2] below is extract from smb.conf.  printuser is a user
I created both with adduser and smbpasswd.  The idea is that this
should save me entering all users' names.

When installing the printer on the WinXP Pro clients, it asks for
username and password, so give it the details for printuser, click
remember password.  But when clients reboot it seems to forget that.
Also, client test page prints come out with errors and jibberish.

The Windows drivers only give a choice of 2  - HP Laserjet 1200
Series PCL and HP Laserjet 1200 PS (MS).  I chose the first,
although it doesn't seem to be working.

Any help appreciated on the above.  I can't think of any other
relevant info to provide.


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[1] Driver test results
Manufacturer:
  HP
    Model:
      Laserjet 1200
        Driver:
          pxlmono - only printed out error message "PCL XL error"
                  - note that this one was labelled "recommended"
                    "and suggested" in the drop down menu
          hpijs - test page printed out, except some random letters
                  on the first line
          lj4dith - test page printed out ok
          lj5gray - only printed out error message "PCL XL error"
          ljet4 - test page printed out, except some random letters
                  on the first line
          Postscript - saw the job in the queue of printer status
                       window, and printer light flashed like it was
                       being sent data, but nothing printed and 
                       the job left the queue
  HP(HPLIP)
    Model:
      Laserjet 1200
        Driver:
          hpijs - test page printed out, except some random letters
                  on the first line
      Laserjet 1200 Postscript (recommended)
        Driver:
          Standard (CUPS) (suggested) - saw the job in the queue of
                       printer status
                       window, and printer light flashed like it was
                       being sent data, but nothing printed and
                       the job left the queue

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[2] /etc/samba/smb.conf extract
[global]
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
path = /tmp
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mode = 0700
printer admin = printuser

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Troy Piggins
Ubuntu v5.10 (Breezy Badger)