Samba/Printing & Win2K INF file problem

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, John Hawley wrote:

> Yes, you do need the "printer driver" in each printer section.  And it

No you do not.  Do not use it.  It will only muck things up.

> must exactly match up with what that drivers description in the *.inf
> file that you direct it to.  Turns out all my problem printer models
> had a typo or some incorrect data on this line.  Not sure if the
> "printer driver location" param is now needed or not, but I have been
> putting "printer driver location=\\%h\print$" in each section.

No.  Do not use it either.  Just out of curiousity, was this unclear in
the HOWTO?  If so I will revise it some more....

> The next problem, is how do you add drivers for other OS's if the
> description names aren't the same?  As an example, an HP Laserjet 4M+.
> In W2k its called "HP LaserJet 4/4M Plus PS 300" and in Win98 its
> called "HP LaserJet 4/4M Plus PS"

See comment above.










chau, jerry
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