[Samba] Printer Dirvers

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Mar 26 07:17:09 GMT 2002


On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Jason Stewart wrote:

> When I remove all of the drivers from the [print$] share, the Windows
> 2000 printer properties dialog box still has the old printer drivers
> that I just erased. I stop and start smbd, log out and log back in with
> my W2K machine and it makes no difference, the drivers are still there.
> What makes this worse is that when I print to the printer, since no
> driver is installed, I just get the raw output.
> 
> I am using Samba 2.2.3a and Cups printing system

By removing ${lockdir}/nt*.tdb, smbd will forget all assigned 
drivers.







cheers, jerry
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