Printer setup on Solaris 8 / samba 2.2.1a

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Olivier Bouriez wrote:

> I'm trying to set up my networked printer on that box using samba so
> my Win2K clients can use it through the server. I looked at the HOWTO
> collection on the site and it is explained how you should setup samba
> to be able to use the Wizard. I've done it and the "Add printer" Icon
> is there. How ever I have an error message of "access denied" after
> the file copy of drivers is finished. I worked-out that the "add
> printer command" must be set and than this is certainly the source of
> the problem. Solaris hasn't got a "addprinter" command. the closer
> I've found is the "lpadmin" command but the problem persists with this
> command.

An "addprinter command" is a custom script that you have to right.
What you need to do is to create a print service in smb.conf.
Installing the printer drivers for download by clients is step #2
really.

Check out the HTML version of Using Samba included in the Samba
docs for information on how to create the initial print share.







cheers, jerry
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