Setting printer driver in /etc/printcap

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Fri Dec 1 06:18:06 GMT 2000


Anthony.Iano-Fletcher at nih.gov wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I found a couple of messages relating to setting the 'printer
> driver' statement in the printcap file.... Darrin Gorsky came 
> up with a patch to samba version 1.9.17p4. This dated from 1998.
> 
> Is this possible in the latest versions (ie. 2.0.7) or do we
> still need to patch it in a similar fashion? Any hope of this 
> being added?

Download 2.0.7 and read docs/textdocs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt.
Things have inproved greatly in 2.2 (in alpha release now).
You can grab that tarball from ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/alpha
(the latest is samba-2.2.0-alpha1.tar.[gz|bz2]) and read
docs/textdocs/PRINTER_DRIVER2.txt





Cheers, jerry
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