Printing with SAMBA and a Windows 2000 Client... !??

[Dimitry Vink]

Hello All (and perhaps Kevin Wilson ?),

I found this email conversation below, in the Mailing List archive.
(It's quite a story to read, sorry.)

I have the exact same problem:
I can see my shares from any Windows machine (Win 2K and Win ME) without any 
problems.
But I cannot install the printer (connected to the Linux server) on the Win 
2K (or XP) machine. I can install and print from the Windows Me machine 
without any problem.

I have been looking at both the HP.com and Microsoft.com sites, but they 
always refer to the installation CD-ROM of Windows 2000. There are no 
separate drivers available.
The problem is: I don't know where to find the installation files (*.inf) or 
printer drivers on that CD-ROM they keep on referring me to!

I was hoping Kevin Wilson or anyone else could specify his previous answer a 
bit more.
Or is there any other way, I can get a simple DeskJet printer to work via 
Samba for Windows 2000 ??

Kind Regards,
Dimitry Vink


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From:     kevin.wilson at ntlworld.com
Date:     2001-09-15 11:07:16

Hello,

I have had this before, I am running SUSE 6.4 with Samba 2.2.0
acting as a PDC for a NT4 Workstation and a NT2000 Workstation.

How I got around it, was to use the drivers from the Windows server
CD (a directory on the CD called Printers). If the drivers needed
were for a NT4 Workstation, then NT4 Server CD was needed. If it
was for NT2000 Workstation, then NT2000 Server CD was needed.

This is how I got around it, A don't know if it is a bug or just the
way it works. Hope this helps.

Kevin

On 15 Sep 2001, at 11:43, Klaus Schmidt wrote:

>Hi there,
>can anyone please help me wih the following problem ?
>
>Situation:
>I am using Samba 2.2 with SuSE Linux 7.2 (Kernel 2.4) and a Windows 2000
>Client.
>It is no problem to see the shared files and printer, which is a HP Deskjet
>930C, in the network environment and the windows explorer.
>The printer is installed and can be used with linux. It is now supposed to
>be used as a network printer with the windows 2000 client.
>
>By double-clicking on the printer (installed as lp-raw), windows tells me
>that there has to be a driver installed first and opens a dialog box to 
>locate
>the printer's .INF file.
>I tried different locations there, all with different versions of a HP
>Deskjet 930C driver. The first one is an one year old original from hp. The 
>second
>one ist the newest one from the hp homepage. I also tried to use the driver
>information from the Windows 2000 CD.
>
>Problem:
>After confirmig the path to the .INF file, an error box opens with a > 
>message, that the driver is not compatible or not available with the > 
>current version of windows.
>(It's the same error box, that appears, when you point to another > 
>hardware .INF file (i.e. a Monitor's .INF file) and therefore contains > no 
>printer information).
>
>I also tried another driver with linux, but same result...
>I also tried to do a completely new windows 2000 software installation > 
>(after format c:), but same result...
>I use one of the drivers for the deskjet as a local printer with windows > 
>2000 - with no problems!
>
>Solution:
>Could it possibly be a bug in samba 2.2 software or is it a windows 2000 > 
>problem?
>Can anybody please help me, because all over the internet, I didn't find > 
>any adequate information concerning this problem...
>I really don't know what to do next...
>
>Thanks for your help, Klaus!



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