[Samba] 2.2.6 and printer questions
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
jerry at samba.org
Fri Nov 1 14:41:01 GMT 2002
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Thomas Bork wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> I have 2 questions about printer driver installation on w2k-client for a
> samba served printer:
>
> 1. If I want to install a driver on w2k workstation, I choose network
> printer and then can browse the network. If printers are served from a
> Nt/w2k-server, in my opinion it is not nessesary to double click the
> netbios name of the Nt/w2k-server to see the shared printers. In this
> case under the Workgroup-Name are all shared printers of all servers
> visible like
>
> - workgroupname
> \\server1\printer1
> \\server2\printer1
> + server1
> + server2
>
> If printers served from Samba it is nessesary to double click the
> netbios name of the samba server to see printershares. Why?
Unknown. Tim had looked into this but I don't remember the details.
> 2. If I'm uploading printer drivers for w2k and win9x via the APW (Add
> Printer Wizzard) from a NT/W2K/XP-client to the Samba server, w2k alway
> show me, that on the samba server only a driver for w2k exists. Why?
No idea. Need more details.
cheers, jerry
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