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

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

Let me take a few moments here and elaborate.

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Dimitry Vink wrote:

> Like Jerry mentioned already; '...and is not really the recommended
> configuration.'

Just to clarify, I mean "disable spoolss = yes" is not recommended
except in extreme circumstances.

> Just to get it to work; I guess I want to prevent the Win 2k client to
> download the printer drivers from the Samba server. That's where the problem
> starts for me at this moment.

Win2k should be able to use the NT4 driver.  Have you tried uploading the
NT4 version of the driver to the Samba server?

> But, I'm also really curious what the 'recommended configuration'
> would be. I can't really help you out on this one, Wade. Still in the
> dark myself.

I'm assuming you've read the Printing Chapter in the
Samba-HOWTO-Collection, right?  Which part was confusing
to you?






chau, jerry
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