[Samba] XP will no longer download print drivers
Adam Nielsen
adam.nielsen at uq.edu.au
Thu Nov 17 00:24:48 GMT 2005
> Ran "cupsaddsmb -a -v -U root" on SuSE box.
Did you do this again once you created the new CUPS printer?
> Drivers and ppd file got copied into drivers/WIN40 and drivers/WIN40/0
Are they the right drivers? This is what my drivers directory looks
like:
$ find /etc/samba/drivers/
/etc/samba/drivers/
/etc/samba/drivers/W32X86
/etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/3
/etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/3/ps5ui.dll
/etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/3/pscript.hlp
/etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/3/pscript.ntf
/etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/3/pscript5.dll
The contents of the drivers/ directory should also be visible if you
run \\Server\print$ from the XP machine.
> If I login as administator and map a drive as the test user, then try
> to add the printer it asks for print drivers.
> Anyone got any ideas? Have I missed out anything?
It looks like you might be installing the NT drivers instead of the XP
ones, which could explain why XP can't find the drivers - all it sees
are old NT ones it doesn't want to use.
I don't know why it would've worked in the past, but perhaps XP
already had drivers it was using instead.
Cheers,
Adam.
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