Automatic downloading of printer drivers for Windows NT clients - NtTools for changing user accounts.

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Dec 21 18:07:05 GMT 2000


On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Adam Read wrote:

> Hi Willy, I have always gotten the automatic driver download for NT.
> I do it the same way that win9x is handled, but with the ntprint.inf.
> I then create the printer def in the same way, copy the files as
> needed by the printer.def(in my case, something like HP8150.ppd,
> PSCRIPT etc).  I set up the PRINTER share, and all is well. let me
> know if you have any problems. As far as #2, I can't help you, but am
> interested in the outcome. Good luck and Happy Holidays, Adam

Prior to Samba 2.2 (in development), we had no support for the SPOOLSS
MS-RPC's which were needed for this.  See PRINTER_DRIVER2.txt for more
information onthe new printing support (in Samba 2.2 alpha snapshots);





Cheers, jerry
SAMBA Team






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