Wiki: 64 bit printer drivers

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Jan 4 09:46:26 UTC 2023



On 04/01/2023 09:36, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
> 
> it seems you reverted Michael's comment on the 64 bit printer driver 
> topic in the wiki:
> 
> <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php?title=Setting_up_Automatic_Printer_Driver_Downloads_for_Windows_Clients&action=history>
> 
> Michael's comment is basically correct as these days SPOOLSS announces 
> itself as a 64 bit printer by default since commit 
> 92fc6a6c254703b771dec0b56b598c2684b4278a from 2017. I guess the whole 
> section "Uploading Only 64-bit Drivers to a Samba Print Server" can just 
> be removed.
> 
> Thanks to Michael for pointing out this issue and thanks Rowland for 
> maintaining and improving the wiki!
> 
> Cheers!
> -slow
> 

Yes, that was me ;-)

I reverted it because there are still 32bit systems out there and, after 
checking, I couldn't find anything that said that printing was now 64bit 
only. This meant to myself that it probably is a bug, but, now you have 
said the above, it sounds like a bug in our documentation, or rather 
lack of it.

Rowland



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