[Samba] Removing printers and faxes folder from windows explorer

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Dec 9 14:03:58 GMT 2004


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panos wrote:

| Looking up the man page on "disable spoolss",  NT and
| 2000 was mentioned a lot, but nothing about XP. We are all
| on XP machines and tried your suggestion, but the printer
| and fax folder still appeared.  Is it possible that
| setting 'disable spoolss = no' works only with NT or 2000?
|
| Also we are using Samba 3.x.x

'disable spoolss' works with XP as well.  The reason the docs
don't mention XP is because they were written before XP was
released.

Note that 'disable spoolss' is a global param.  And you might
need to restart the client spooling after making the change
on the Samba server.




cheers, jerry


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