[Samba] So SAMBA no longer supports print driver downloads
Robert M. Martel
bob at urban.csuohio.edu
Thu Jan 30 19:23:44 GMT 2003
> I have much trouble with drivers from HP.
> The drivers that come with w2k XP works.
> If you have to use the drivers from the manufakturer of the
> printer try the default devmode parameter in smb.conf
> to initialize the driver. Once done you can remove
> the default devmode from smb.conf.
>
> Just a try, has worked for me with HP Deskjet 970 driver.
>
> Didi
Dietrich,
Thanks for the note. I will look into this. I still perplexed that the
driver download settings were OK for printer admins, but messed-up for regular
users. This looks like the same problem going back to Samba versions prior to
2.2.2, problems which I had thought fixed.
-Bob
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