Samba/Printing & Win2K INF file problem

[Wade Winright]

So after many hours of beating my head against the monitor, and searches
galore, bothering people on the list, and causing myself to talk in my sleep
concerning printers I have a work-around for this problem!!
	I have done 2 things, one of which I know makes it work, and the
other that may contribute, but I have to do more testing...
	First, I download the drivers from the manufacturer, in this case
HP, and place them in a folder on my win2k workstation. I then follow the
Samba Printing instructions. When Win2k prompts me for a driver, I select
Have Disk, browse to the new folder, select the directory with the driver in
it and select Open. When it prompts me for the "*.inf" file, I simply point
it back to THE SAME FOLDER I USED FOR THE DRIVER and it will either install,
or give a Microsoft signature warning, at which I select Yes I agree. It
will finish installing, and viola!! The drivers will now download
automatically!!
	The other thing I did which may or may not contribute to these
results is to add 2 directories (so far) in the W32X86 directory named "2"
and "3". This is something I tried due to the fact that my win2k box has
these folders under the PRINTERS directory. 
	I think this will fix the problems. I have installed 3 printers now
and have about 100 to go. I will keep the list updated on problems and
successes. 
	If this works out like it is currently, I would recommend inserting
this into the docs, as I have seen about 4-5 emails on the list within the
past 5 days concerning this.
	Happy Hunting...

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hawley [mailto:jhawley at bgea.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:58 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Samba/Printing & Win2K INF file problem

John Hawley wrote:

> Wade Winright wrote:
>
> > Don't know if this will help, but the printer driver and printer driver
> > location options are not used in 2.2.2 I believe. I could be wrong, but
I
> > think I'm right...
> >
> > P.S. I have the same problem with my setup, and I'm trying to figure it
out
> > as we speak...
>

Ok, I think I have it pretty much figured out.

Yes, you do need the "printer driver" in each printer section.  And it must
exactly
match up with what that drivers description in the *.inf file that you
direct it
to.  Turns out all my problem printer models had a typo or some incorrect
data on
this line.  Not sure if the "printer driver location" param is now needed or
not,
but I have been putting "printer driver location=\\%h\print$" in each
section.

The next problem, is how do you add drivers for other OS's if the
description names
aren't the same?  As an example, an HP Laserjet 4M+.  In W2k its called "HP
LaserJet 4/4M Plus PS 300" and in Win98 its called "HP LaserJet 4/4M Plus
PS"

~jh


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