[Samba] Samba developers - Printing/driver downloading

[Gerald Carter]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Mike Babnick wrote:

> First: From the Windows NT printer properties box, I entered comments, 
> location and other settings - what file are these settings stored in?

$(lockdir)/ntprinters.tdb

> 
> Second: Thank you Samba developers!
> 
> I've been working off and on for two days to make printer driver
> downloading available to my NT Workstations and all the little details
> that make such a thing happen.  Reading the HTML printer driver doc from
> the Samba 2.2.4 doc directory, I was able to get things up and running
> great!  I may have cursed Samba a couple of times but once I figured it
> out, oh how nice it works.  On my workstation, I added a printer from a
> list of printers on a Samba PDC and the drivers downloaded without a
> problem and the comments as well as other settings (like duplexer
> settings)  all came across like they would on from a Windows NT Server.  
> Awesome software.

Cool! :-)  Thanks for the feedback.

> I know so little in the area of UNIX/Linux and Samba but I am trying to
> figure out how I can assist your efforts in a show of appreciation and
> thanks.  For now, I continue to watch for easy questions on the samba
> list I can answer.

Much appreciated.  The volume of mail here is extreme at times....





cheers, jerry
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