Imprints (WAS: Browsing Election - TIE!)

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Jan 24 06:39:41 GMT 2002


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Josh Trutwin wrote:

> > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 josh at trutwins.homeip.net wrote:
> >
> >> Sweet, now I just need to figure out how to share my printer drivers.
> >> I guess without a Windows NT box, I need to look into something like
> >> imprints.  Anyone have any luck with that?
> >
> > I need to spend some time working on it (but I don't seem to have any
> > right now). :-\
>
> I don't know, I am looking over the documentation and it seems pretty
> confusing.  I understand the concept, but the documentation for actually
> configuring imprints leaves a lot to be desired.

Like I said, I need to spend some time with it :-)   Development has been
stopped for a while now.

> Does anyone have a different recommendation?  I want to share a
> printer on a Windows 98 machine with other Windows 98 and linux
> machines.  And I also want to share a printer on a Linux workstation
> with other Windows 98 machines.  No NT, just 98.

You can use the old 2.0 method of doing this (or you can examine the
imprints install_printer_driver.pl perl script for an example of how to
do it with smbclient & rpcclient).









chau, jerry
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