[Samba] Default settings for print drivers

[Ian Eure]

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:58 am, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Ian Eure wrote:
> > Hi. I've finally got Samba to serve up print drivers for the printers I
> > serve. However, I'm not able to set the default driver options.
> >
> > This is what I'm doing (from a Win2k Pro box)
> >
> > Start->Run
> > \\(samba server)
> > open Printers folder
> > right click printer, Properties
> > Device Settings tab
> > Configure e.g. default paper size
> > Click OK
> > Reopen Properties->Device Settings, and the old paper size is still
> > selected.
> >
> > Some settings seem to work, but I haven't been able to get the paper size
> > settings to work. This is a problem because we have some printers which
> > only have legal paper, and they require manual intervention if they get a
> > job for some other size paper.
>
> What version of Samba?  What server OS?
>
Sorry. I'm running 2.2.3a on Debian 3.0. Custom Linux 2.4.20 kernel, 1gb ram, 
2xP3 (Coppermine) @700MHz.