[Samba] Samba 2.2 + CUPS driver download work for anyone?
Brian Wiese
bwiese at hms4emc.com
Sat Apr 5 23:15:22 GMT 2003
I have tried everything I could possibly think of to get printer driver
download working with Samba 2.2.3a-6 and CUPS 1.1.15-4 (latest Debian
unstable packages). I am wondering if anyone else has go this to work at
all (with newer versions of samba or cups?) -- if so please let me know to
give me some hope. Or else I am thinking this is officially 'broken'.
CUPS is working perfectly with the printers installed, even Win98 clients
can print using the shared network HP8100N printer via Samba with their own
locally installed printer drivers (from manufacture disks). I would simply
like to automated the printer driver selection and installation for the
Win98 clients. (right click on printer -> install should "just work"). What
else do I need to do? Can I just place some actual drivers files in the
[print$] share manually??
Thanks in advance! ...
I've setup the [print$] share:
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN798
and am trying to setup CUPS for driver download:
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1050
// These printers work fine, from UNIX and Win98 clients
root at WS-072:/var/log/samba# lpstat -v
device for HP8100N: socket://192.168.2.27:9100/
device for HP8100Nps: socket://192.168.2.27:9100/
// PPD files used for CUPS Printers, both work
root at WS-072:/etc/cups/ppd# ls -l
total 248
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122039 Apr 6 14:19 HP8100N.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122039 Apr 6 14:23 HP8100Nps.ppd
// ADOBE Postscript drivers
root at WS-072:/usr/share/cups/drivers# ls -l
total 2232
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 575573 Mar 30 12:38 ADFONTS.MFM
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1295840 Mar 30 12:38 ADOBEPS4.DRV
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 196460 Mar 30 12:38 ADOBEPS4.HLP
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13492 Mar 30 12:39 DEFPRTR2.PPD
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 118128 Mar 30 12:38 ICONLIB.DLL
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 57344 Mar 30 12:39 PSMON.DLL
/* ADOBEPS5.DLL, ADOBEPSU.DLL, ADOBEPSU.HLP were not found on the
/* adobe.com website for either their Universal 1.0.6 drivers
/* (winsteng.exe) or their Postscript 4.2.6 drivers for Win9x
/* (aps426eng.exe). These files where copied over from a Windows 98
/* machine, are the missing files necessary for CUPS driver download??
// Running the cupsaddsmb program to copy the CUPS printer drivers
// to the samba [print$] share -- unsuccessfully.
root at WS-072:~# cupsaddsmb -U root -a
Warning: No PPD file for printer "HP8100N"!
/* Why is it giving this error? The proper PPD files are in
/* /etc/cups/ppd/ as shown above and placed there by the CUPS
/* web-based install and command line "lpadmin -p HP8100N -v \
/* socket://192.168.2.27:9100 -E -P /usr/share/cups/model/HP8100N.PPD"
/* printer install process.
// PPD files of course not added to the [print$] share
root at WS-072:/etc/samba/drivers# ls -lR
.:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 15:37 W32X86
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 15:37 WIN40
./W32X86:
total 0
./WIN40:
total 0
------------------------ relevant pieces of smb.conf file -------------
[global]
workgroup = linuxtest
netbios name = WS-072
## lines here snipped for brevity
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
public = no
writable = no
create mode = 0700
printer admin = root
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /etc/samba/drivers
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
write list = root,usertest
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