[Samba] new feature in 2.2.6 ?

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Sep 16 12:27:01 GMT 2002


On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Christoph Beyer wrote:

> sure the drivers are installed on the server, everything works fine in
> principal but I have >2.500 clients and they just don't care about SAMBA
> or NT they expect exactly the behaviour of a NT printserver which is OK
> from their point of view. They use the 'add-printer-wizzard' and if they
> don't see the printers at first view like they would if the server was a
> windows type of thing they give our first level support a call and drive
> them nuts...

OK.  I misunderstood the original post.  IIRC i've seen NT servers that 
are automatically expanded as well. I've no idea what determines
whether a server's list of printers is show like this.  I'll have to look 
into it but I'm going to retract my statement of a fix being in 2.2.6.




cheers, jerry
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