[Samba] Printing w/CUPS, Samba 2.2 - Adobe PS files?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

bwiese bwiese at cotse.com wrote on Samba-Digest:

> Sat Mar 29 15:53:57 GMT 2003
> 
> I'm following the Samba HOWTO for CUPS printing, trying to run the
> 'cupsaddsmb' program but it requires the Adobe PS files.  The howto says
> to get them from www.adobe.com, can anyone be more specific?
> 
> The files required are:
> ADFONTS.MFM
> ADOBEPS4.DRV
> ADOBEPS4.HLP
> ADOBEPS5.DLL
> ADOBESU.DLL
> ADOBESU.HLP
> ADOBEPTR2.PPD
> ICONLIB.DLL
> 
> I've downloaded the "Universal 1.0.6 English" 7.4MB winsteng.exe[1] for
> Windows and got all of the above files except "ADOBEPS5.DLL, ADOBEPSU.DLL,
> and ADOBESU.HLP" from c:\windows\system...
> 
> The "AdobePS 4.2.6 for Win9x" 1MB aps426eng.exe[2] had even fewer files.

This one should have the files for the Win9x clients:

            ADFONTS.MFM
            ADOBEPS4.DRV
            ADOBEPS4.HLP
            DEFPRTR2.PPD
            ICONLIB.DLL
            PSMON.DLL

The "Universal" one possibly contains the files for the WinNT/2K/XP
clients:

            ADOBEPS5.DLL
            ADOBEPSU.DLL
            ADOBEPSU.HLP

Possibly you can unpack this file with "cabextract", "unzip" or "expand".
If that doesn't work, you'd need to install them on a WinNT/2K/XP box
once and manually retrieve them via "smbclient" accessing the "print$"
share (or looking in "C:\Windows\system32\spool\driver..."

> Is there a tar/zip archive of these files somewhere?

Not that I know... (legality, legality...)

> Should they really be placed in /usr/share/cups/drivers 

Yes.

"cupsaddsmb" grabs them there and puts them into "/etc/samba/drivers/"
if you run it. "/etc/samba/drivers/" will then be accessible to the
clients as the "print$" share.

Please also read my previous mail.

> while the
> smb.conf says:
> [print$]
>   path = /etc/samba/drivers
> 
> [1] http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1500
> [2] http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=527
> 

Cheers,
Kurt