[Samba] Can't upload printer driver from property sheet.

Craig Box craig at dubculture.co.nz
Fri Aug 23 13:12:22 GMT 2002


> No matter what I try I was unable to upload the drivers to my samba
> machine from the property sheet.  I don't get any error as I don't even
> get the chance to press 'New Driver'.  I followed the
> Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html to the letter (or so I beleive). But
> everytime I get the the "Advance Tab", the "New Driver button is greyed
> out.  However I can modify everything else on the property sheet.
>
> My clients are Windows XP and my server is FreeBSD 4.5

This was commonly caused for me when you're not logged into the system as
root or a printer admin.

Add a line saying 'printer admin = serge' (or whomever you might be) to the
general smb.conf and try again.

Craig




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