DOwnload printer drivers

[Brugier Pascal]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:39:44PM -0800, Joachim Feise wrote:
> Brugier Pascal wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I have one samba server "servimp" and many W2k and W98 stations.
> > servimp is only a printing server.
> > 
> > I want to use the possibility of downloadable printer driver
> > from the server, but i have got several problems with W2k.
> > 
> > When i want to use a printer which is visible on the net
> > neighboruhood, the W2k stations tell me to install the driver -ok.
> > 
> > The driver installer is going to read for driver on the samba
> > server but can't find it and the on the server the log.smbd
> > say:
> > 
> > [2002/01/08 13:28:09, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(239)
> >   poste_127_jacca (192.33.60.127) couldn't find service
> > ::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a
> > 2de-08002b30309d}
> > 
> > I made a print$ share, i made the driver dirs with W32X86/2/
> > and W32X86/3 i put in this directories the driver i found on the
> > W2k clients, i'd test to with drivers from Adobe but it's the same
> > problem
> 
> AFAIK, you have to upload the drivers from the W2K *Server* CD. You
> can't use the drivers that are on the W2K Workstation CD. At least,
> this is what I had to do to get the driver download working.
> 
Ok thank you for the answer, i will try as soon as possible (i'm working on
an other project, but i'd like to finish this one on a good way, buit 
i want to know if i have to copy drivers which are not yet installed 
(from the cdrom) or if it's possible to copy the drivers directories 
from the server ?

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Pascal Brugier
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