[Samba] print$ service

[Martyn Ranyard]

I have just got this working on my system.

Ideally you need the load printers = yes in your smb.conf

otherwise define your printer similar to the following.

(note that I experience about a 5-10 sec delay before they appear in 
Printers on the server, at least when accessing from NT4)

[epson]
         path = /var/spool/samba
         guest ok = yes
         browseable = yes
         printable = yes
         read only = no

The following options I put in when I was having trouble, but I can't 
remember if they helped.
         force group = root
         force user = root

Also, as you have already done (included for later ref for others) you must 
define your Printer Admins group, or you will only be able to add drivers 
if you browse as root.  my Printer Admins looks like this :

         printer admin = @users

which goes in the [global] section

At 10:38 AM 1/30/02 +0100, Roques Didier wrote:
>I 'd like to use the print$ function to download printer driver from the 
>server . So after reading the documentation i've added the following 
>thinks in my smb.conf
>
>in Global section
>printer admin = root, admin
>
>in service section:
>
>[print$]
>path=/etc/samba/printers
>browseable =yes
>read only = yes
>write list = admin,root
>
>I've made the following directories under /etc/samba/printers:
>W32X86
>WIN40
>so I've got the following directories:
>/etc/samba/printers/W32X86
>/etc/samba/printers/WIN40
>
>So After i connect from a Win2K client the following share 
>\\serveur\print$ using the admin user:
>I see the W32X86 and WIN40 directories, but i don't see any printer 
>defined in the smb.conf file.
>
>What's wrong ?
>Do y need to create manually sub-directories in /etc/samba/printers/W32X86 
>and /etc/samba/printers/WIN40 called the printer name ?
>For example create a directory /etc/samba/printers/W32X86/hp1 to put in it 
>drivers files for the printer called hp1.
>
>  so if someone has got an example of conf files implementing the print$ 
> function, please send it to me.
>Is this system works for win9x also ?
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Martyn

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