Plea for assistance, you get enhanced printing back

[Tim Potter]

papowell at astart.com writes:

> Is there a similar way or easy way to 
> 
> a)  get the printer status via Samba?

You should be able to do a ls from smbclient when connected to a
printer share.

> c)  remove a job via Samba

Using rm from smbclient should work.

> d)  Test the downloading of drivers from Samba from a
>     Windows host OR an NT Host ;-)

I don't think the 9x and NT printer driver download schemes are
aware of each other at the moment.  You might try taking a look
at some of the new rpcclient commands Mr Carter has been adding
recently.

> In return,  I will rewrite the samba/docs/textdocs/Printing.txt
> to include this information.  Oh.  You want payment in advance.
> OK: here is part 1.

Good stuff!  (-:  Some of the doco in the textdocs directory is
horribly out of date.


Regards,

Tim.