2nd attempt: Modify location of printerdriverfiles

[Simo Sorce]

That would change nearly nothnig, because the printer drivers will be
copyed in the same structure on the client and there you will find the
same naming problem.

It is a known windows problem (just faces some day ago with drivers for
2 HP laser printers on a windows 98 :-/)

If the Printer Manufacturer tell you so she is both right an wrong.

Right it is an OS problem, A windows OS problem.

Wrong the manufacter must know this issue and try not to make drivers
with overlapping names.


However you may try just a workaround. If any of your clients will use
only one printer, you may try some symlink + macro expansion tricks to
use different directories, but it may not work or corrupt badly your
printer settings and prnting related tdb file, so at your own risk:

- you may use a macro expansion on the print$ share path and then make a
number of directories that match that macro expansion

eg:
path = /usr/share/samba/%G/drivers

and have a pool of printers per group or other parameter.

Simo.

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 11:21, "Kätzler, Ralf" wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Maybe this time someone can give me a hint - or is my english that bad - so that nobody can catch the point - or my question is posted to the false list?
> Please each answer is welcome! Thank you!
> 
> >Hello, Samba-Team, hello samba-freaks!
> >
> >My question/problem:
> >I like to use a samba-server as printer-server for about >500 users with ~ 40 different printers.
> >The client OS is NT4 or XP. The problem I encountered is that there are printerdrivers out there which use for different models dlls with the same name but the dlls are not
> >compatible - great!! - ! So only the last installed printer works flawless, because the dll for the other model is overwritten during driverinstall.
> >My question: Is there a tool, which allows save tempering with the *.tdb, to change the path to the driverfiles or to change the behavior to rpc "getdriverinfo"?
> >This way it would be possible to create an own driver-directory-structur and all those printerdriver related problems are gone...
> >
> >Greetings
> >Ralf
> 
> Btw.: Redhat 8.0 and latest Samba.
> Calling the printermanufactor is hopeless. The only answer I got is: This must be a problem  with your OS... thanks for your help. :(
> 
> Greetings
> Ralf
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