I am trying to create a networked PDF printer, but keep running into failure. I was following the howto HERE and here are my config scripts:

Now, when I print to the HP8500 printer it works (device is not actually there, but it gets queued anyhow). The device "PDF-Printer" is a virtual printer and does not exist outside the realm of samba. What I want it to do is have the printer set up as a HP 8500 PostScript printer, and when Windows sends a print job it sends the postscript code to /usr/bin/printpdf, which actually just runs ps2pdf and gets rid of the temporary file. However, it won't work, no matter what I try. Do you ahve any ideas on how I can fix this?

EDIT: Also, the printer seems tobe opening forever without doing anything else. At least, that's what it's status always is. Error logs read as follows:

What failures are you running into?
Any error messages.?

Considering your Printer is shared through Samba and is configured as such, the error lies within the machine the Printer would be connected to.

Hell, for all you know it does work, you just don't have a printer hooked up.

It isn't hooked up, I can tell you that. I was running this on the server, it is supposed to accept incoming postscript printjobs from clients, and forward them directly to a bash script that pushes it out in PDF format. That's all...

I was merely trying to simulate a printer with SAMBA, so that windows would look at it that way as it does Adobe Distiller. If you have a better way to create a network-shared PDF printer, please let me know. Or if you can see what I did wrong here, any help is appreciated. There is not a great amount of info online about this subject, so right now I'm trying to find my footing.

Thanks in advance

Sometimes I hate being me...

commented out the following 2 lines:
#printcap name = cups
#printing = cups

and now it magically works! So, I have a nifty pdf generator, it will run the print commands now. Hope this will help someone else in the future