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

[Wade Winright]

This fix seems all well and good, unless you want the clients to download
the drivers from the samba server. Does anyone have any idea how to make
this portion work? I've been beating my head against the monitor with this
one...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitry Vink [mailto:dimitry_vink at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:57 AM
To: jerry at samba.org
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Printing with SAMBA and a Windows 2000 Client... !??

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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