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

Tue Jan 8 05:53:03 GMT 2002

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Dimitry Vink wrote:

> 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!

What printer model?

> 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 ??

You can disable MS-RPC printing support (i.e. make samba 2.2 work just
like samba 2.0) but setting "disable spoolss = yes").  This will kill
driver downloads though and is not really the recommended configuration.

chau, jerry
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