[Samba] installing printer in a logon script

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at interia.pl
Thu Nov 4 16:55:55 GMT 2004


> On Thursday 04 November 2004 10:32, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this doesn't work so well: win2k complains that server,
>> on which the printer is installed, has no matching drivers. Then I can
>> choose "OK", which means that drivers will be installed from the local
>> machine. So when I choose OK, win2k uses local drivers and from now on I
>> can print from that win2k.
>>
>> Is it possible to get rid of that question, so that printer installation
>> would be automatic? Either by using default win2k drivers, or these
>> which are on Samba server.
> 
> Make a [print$] share on your server and store all printer drivers there.

OK, so I did that share, put drivers to /var/lib/samba/drivers/W32X86, 
put them to /var/lib/samba/drivers/W32X86/HP2000C too, but despite of 
it, effect is still the same - win2k claims that there is no driver.

Any more steps I should do?


Tomek



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