Samba shared printer and Windows 2000

[Keith Mastin]

To start with, lets turn off the html, okay?
Next, make sure that the printer is supported for win2k.... not all HP
machines are Win2k compatible yet, oddly enough, especially the newer
ones.


On Tue, 8 May 2001, Francesco Canessa wrote:

>Dear Frends,
>I have shared a printer (HP DeskJet 840C) on my network by means of Samba. I have a Windows 2000 client where I'd like to map the printer shared by Samba as a network printer.
>When I look in the Windows "Network Neighborhoods" I can see the printer, but when I try to install it as a network printer using the "Create New Printer" guided procedure from the Printers Folder I cannot succeed. The problem arises when this procedure asks me to submit the correct printer driver. I yield the specific HP DJ 840C driver downloaded from HP Support, but Windows complains that this isn't a suitable one and fails the installation.
>Unfortunately the printer installation procedure recognizes that a printer is shared by Samba but it does not recognize  that it is an HP DJ 840C (the model showed is: "NO DRIVER AVAILABLE FOR THIS PRINTER").
>
>Thanks for the help
>
>Francesco
>

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