[Samba] Re: samba3, cups, and pointprint drivers install

[awesome-dave1 at juno.com]

Hello,
	Thanks for that info. I don't see a printing defaults button on the
advanced tab of the printer in question on the samba server. Again, i
navigate to that folder, right click the printer, click properties,
answer no, then go to the advanced tab, and new driver. This is on a 2k
box if that matters.
	My shares print$ and printers are below.
Thanks.
Dave.
[printers]
comment = all printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browsable = no
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes
use client driver = yes
[print$]
comment = printer driver download area
path = /etc/samba/drivers
browsable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
write list = @ntadmin


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:26:21 -0700 "Stephen Harris"
<stephen.p.harris at att.net> writes:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <awesome-dave1 at juno.com>
> Newsgroups: gmane.network.samba.general
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 6:09 PM
> Subject: samba3, cups, and pointprint drivers install
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> > I've got a redhat9 system with cups and samba3 installed. I want 
> to use
> > this machine for both local and network printing. On the local 
> side apps
> > can print just fine, the cups configuration is working great.
> > Network-side is not the case. I've got a mixture of 2k and 9x 
> clients, so
> > i'm going to need drivers for both configurations. In smb.conf 
> i've got:
> > printcap name = cups
> > printing = cups
> > load printers = yes
> > I'm logging on to a 2k box as an administrator, in smbusers i have 
> the 2k
> > administrator mapped to the root user and an entry for root in 
> smbpasswd.
> > I can navigate to the machine, i go to the printers share, right 
> click
> > the printer, go to properties, say no to load the driver, then go 
> to the
> > advanced tab, new driver, install the driver from the hp rom, that
> > appears to go fine, however when i click the ok or apply button i 
> get the
> > message driver settings could not be saved. They're going in
> > /etc/samba/drivers with permissions of 775, the share is owned by 
> root
> > and group of ntadmin who has write access to the share, other than 
> that
> > it is a read only share. I've also explicitly added root to the 
> Linux
> > ntadmin group. I'm not sure where to debug this, i'm not getting 
> anything
> > useful in cups.log and my cups is listening on the localhost port 
> 631.
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
> > Thanks.
> > Dave.
> >
> >
> 
> I read this in the Samba HowTo, maybe it will help:
>  
> http://samba.vernstok.nl/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#id2929652
> 
> Print Options for All Users Can't Be Set on Windows 200x/XP
> How are you doing it? I bet the wrong way (it is not easy to find 
> out,
> though). There are three different ways to bring you to a dialog 
> that seems
> to set everything. All three dialogs look the same, yet only one of 
> them
> does what you intend. You need to be Administrator or Print 
> Administrator to
> do this for all users. Here is how I do in on XP:
> 
>   1.. The first wrong way:
> 
>     1.. Open the Printers folder.
> 
>     2.. Right-click on the printer (remoteprinter on cupshost) and 
> select in
> context menu Printing Preferences...
> 
>     3.. Look at this dialog closely and remember what it looks like.
> 
> 
>   2.. The second wrong way:
> 
>     1.. Open the Printers folder.
> 
>     2.. Right-click on the printer (remoteprinter on cupshost) and 
> select
> the context menu Properties.
> 
>     3.. Click on the General tab.
> 
>     4.. Click on the button Printing Preferences...
> 
>     5.. A new dialog opens. Keep this dialog open and go back to the 
> parent
> dialog.
> 
> 
>   3.. The third, and the correct way:
> 
>     1.. Open the Printers folder.
> 
>     2.. Click on the Advanced tab. (If everything is "grayed out," 
> then you
> are not logged in as a user with enough privileges).
> 
>     3.. Click on the Printing Defaults... button.
> 
>     4.. On any of the two new tabs, click on the Advanced... button.
> 
>     5.. A new dialog opens. Compare this one to the other identical 
> looking
> one from "B.5" or A.3".
> 
> 
> Do you see any difference? I don't either. However, only the last 
> one, which
> you arrived at with steps "C.1.-6.", will save any settings 
> permanently and
> be the defaults for new users. If you want all clients to get the 
> same
> defaults, you need to conduct these steps as Administrator (printer 
> admin in
> smb.conf) before a client downloads the driver (the clients can 
> later set
> their own per-user defaults by following the procedures A or B 
> above).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> 


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