[Samba]Re: DOwnload printer drivers

['Brugier Pascal']

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:30:07PM -0500, Wade Winright wrote:
> So after many hours of beating my head against the monitor, and searches
> galore, bothering people on the list, and causing myself to talk in my sleep
> concerning printers I have a work-around for this problem!!
> 	I have done 2 things, one of which I know makes it work, and the
> other that may contribute, but I have to do more testing...
> 	First, I download the drivers from the manufacturer, in this case
> HP, and place them in a folder on my win2k workstation. I then follow the
> Samba Printing instructions. When Win2k prompts me for a driver, I select
> Have Disk, browse to the new folder, select the directory with the driver in
> it and select Open. When it prompts me for the "*.inf" file, I simply point
> it back to THE SAME FOLDER I USED FOR THE DRIVER and it will either install,
> or give a Microsoft signature warning, at which I select Yes I agree. It
> will finish installing, and viola!! The drivers will now download
> automatically!!
> 	The other thing I did which may or may not contribute to these
> results is to add 2 directories (so far) in the W32X86 directory named "2"
> and "3". This is something I tried due to the fact that my win2k box has
> these folders under the PRINTERS directory. 
> 	
> I hope this helps...Please let me know if it does...
> 
Hi 

I thank you for your answer.

I'm sorry, but for the moment i can't continu to work on this server,
in fact i work on another samba server (this one was configur by another
person and i have to solve right problems on this one), but as soon as 
i can go back on it i'll try your solution and i'll tell you back if it's 
work fine.

See you soon 


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Pascal Brugier
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