[Samba] Using working devmode from windows clients on samba server?

daniel.jarboe at custserv.com daniel.jarboe at custserv.com
Thu Feb 13 14:08:02 GMT 2003


Any luck with this?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> create a local printer and then use GetPrinter() to grab the 
> devmode of the local printer.  Then run  GetPrinter() on the
> remote Samba printer to get the current properties and issue
> a SetPrinter() with the new devmode.
> 
> If you have problems with this I can code it up in a few minutes.
> Let me know.  I should have done this a long time ago probably.

Also, "remote Samba printer" means the actual samba printer, not
one installed on the client, right?  So I could give the remote
Samba printer a working devmode on the server and *new* clients
can do the automatic driver download and have a working devmode
already set?

Thanks for letting me know,
~ Daniel






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