[Samba] Re: mapping printers from 2K and XP

[Joel Hammer]

I had this problem with windows XP. I solved it with :
use client driver = yes
in the printer share definition.
Joel

the On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:12:16AM +0100, Bas Goes wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 05:46, samba-request at lists.samba.org wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:11:34 -0300
> > From: "Demian Lessa" <demian at knowhow-online.com.br>
> > Subject: [Samba] mapping printers from 2K and XP
> > Message: 5
> 
> > The only problem I'm having right now is that windows 2K and xp clients
> > always display the Samba printer with status = error. Even so, they print
> > correctly.
> > Any clues?
> 
> Have you looked at permission of your spooldir in (default)
> /var/spool/samba
> 
> WIndows XP en 2000 try to check on the remote spool (on the samba
> machine) for status afaik so as long as you're not checking your spool
> out as root you can't check status if you doon't have read permission in
> the spooldir. If you don't want to set permission you can map the
> printer to an lpt port in NT5 or disable spoolss in samba (smb.conf)
> afaik, all of this will make NT5 look at the printers through the lanman
> protocol (which is the same as the protocol win9x uses) and that uses
> local spooling or at least not look at the remote spoolstatus. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong anyone :).
> 
> Regards
> Bas
> 
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