[Samba] Re: Re: pdf printer

[Norman Zhang]

Hi,

> Hmm.  i've not even tried it on windows95/98 as we are only on 2k/XP here.
> i'll setup a test machine and see what i find...   i have got a driver for
> 9x but i browsed to \\sambamachine then printers then right clicked on the
> printer and sad additional drivers stuck in the windows2k terminal server
> CD (lots of drivers on there) and said do it.

I didn't add any other printer driver from W2K CD or from any 3rd party
vendor. I first created pdfprinter.ppd by

  lpadmin -p pdfprinter -E -v pdf:/var/tmp -m adist5.pdf

then exported pdfprinter.ppd so Windows clients can download

  cupsaddsmb -v pdfprinter

Now NT/2000 can download the drivers no problem. But 9x/ME complains that
they can't find pdfprinter.PPD. I think there's some subtle bugs in linking
the drivers for download, but I don't know where.

Regards,
Norman

-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Zhang

> But this only covers the "Install-PDF-Printer-on-CUPS" part.
>
> The other part is the "Install-PDF-Printer-on-Windows". Here you have
> several options. My recommendation is the
> "Use-the-CUPS-PostScript-Drivers-for-Windows-NT/2K/XP"
> -and-export-with-the-help-of-cupsaddsmb" one.

I now have it working on NT/2000. But in 9x/ME, it complains that
pdfprinter.PPD not found. I checked WINNT40\0\, pdfprinter.PPD is in there.
I even made duplicates like PDFPRINTER.PPD and pdfprinter.ppd, copied the
file to a local disk, but 9x/ME still cannot find it. Could this be a bug
somewhere? I don't know why I'm seeing all these strange cases 8(