Setting printer driver in /etc/printcap

Anthony.Iano-Fletcher at nih.gov Anthony.Iano-Fletcher at nih.gov
Tue Dec 5 17:26:35 GMT 2000


Gerald Carter replied,

> > 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


Ah! thanks for the help.... I've just looked and I'll just hold off until
2.2.0 ceases to be alpha.


			Anthony.

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