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

[Dimitry Vink]

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for your answer.

>What printer model?
An old Deskjet 600. [ Although it still works fine, I'm planning to buy a 
new one ;) ]

>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.
I'll see if I can find the settings you described above. And try to make it 
work. I'll let you know.

Thanks,
Dimitry


----Original Message Follows----
Subject: Re: Printing with SAMBA and a Windows 2000 Client... !??
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 07:48:09 -0600 (CST)

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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