[Samba] 2.2.6 and printer questions

[Eirik Thorsnes]

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Thomas Bork wrote:
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> > > Is it correct, that the automatic download of printer drivers is only
> > > possible for printers, which are associated with an printcap entry?
> > > When I'm uploading a postscript driver for a *virtuell* printer, which
> > > is not associated with an printcap entry and then making an automatic
> > > installation of the driver on w2k, the status of this printer is
> > > always "Failure". The definition in smb.conf is:
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> No.  Any printer can have drivers associated with it.
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> cheers, jerry
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Of course, but since the lpq command for a virtual printer don't give a
successfull result - you get an error on the client for the status.
My solution here was to set a "special" lpq command for the virtual
printer, which always returned a successful result when asked.

Eirik Thorsnes

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