[Samba] THE [PRINT$] SHARE

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue May 27 19:07:31 GMT 2003


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On Tue, 27 May 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:

> Ok. You have me doubting on the printer$ issue now. It is easy to
> resolve though, if you have an MS Windows 9x system that has file and
> print sharing enabled, in a DOS box just type:
> 
> net view \\machine
> 
> It will list either print$ or printer$ as one of the shares.

Correct.  But the way that Windows 9x shares drivers doesn't mean that
Windows 9x client require a print server to support a printer$ share.
The location of driver files is obtained via a RAP or RPC call.







cheers, jerry
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