[Samba] Windows 2000 printing to public printer

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On 10 Feb 2003, Etienne Tourigny wrote:

> Hmmm. found the solution myself.
> 
> The best solution is to add the following line to the [printer] section
> in smb.conf:
> 
>    use client driver = yes
> 
> This forces the Windows 2000 (and XP?) to properly treat the printer as
> a remote device and not locally attached.  I found this on
> http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~josephm/tips.html and later in the smb.conf
> man page...   RTFM!!!!

Nope.  use client driver is a severe hack to be used **only** when you 
want to install the drivers locally on the client for a given printer.
Generally disable spoolss is cleaner, but that is a global setting.
The use client driver parameter allows drivers to be made available on the 
server for some printers and not others.  Never enable it for a printer 
that will provide drivers on the server.


cheers, jerry
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