[Samba] friendly printer name

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon May 24 15:17:12 GMT 2004


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Christoph Klein wrote:

| On a Windows Server, you change the name of a printer,
~ > so that it is  different to the share name. We use
~ > 8-letter sharenames for being  compatible to old
~ > Win9x-Clients, but we would like to have longer, more
| comprehendable names for our Win2k/XP users. The printer
~ > name on Windows in the Properties under the
~ > general-tab; the textbox next to the printer icon
~ > can be altered and pressing ok saves the new name on the
| server.

Here's a patch that seems to work for me.  I've just done
basic testing from 2000 and 98se, but it seems to work.
It's been checked into trunk (not 3.0).  Use at your own
risk.






cheers, jerry
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