[Samba] Re: Add printer wizard (XP)

[Jeff Umbach]

I don't believe that this is possible, the printers will point to the linux
queues no matter what.

"Hamish" <captainmish at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:407D329E.90302 at gmx.net...
> Also, is there any way to make the printers on the samba server just
> 'links' to the ip printers? IE when clients connect they download the
> drivers and then print directly to the printers ip, not the samba server.
> Thanks again,
> Hamish
>
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>
> >> Message: 19
> >> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:54:02 +0100
> >> From: Hamish <captainmish at gmx.net>
> >> Subject: [Samba] Add printer wizard (XP)
> >> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> >> Message-ID: <407D265A.20100 at gmx.net>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
> >>
> >> Hello list
> >> I have been really wowed by samba 3 so far, i just have one last
> >> mission to complete... please help!
> >> I have samba 3.0.2a-SuSE installed on a SuSE 9.0 box. It uses winbind
> >> to authenticate against a win server 2003 box - this seems to work
> >> fine, users can own files and this is shown when getfacl is run on
> >> the shares (owned by DOMAIN\User).
> >> The last problem i have is adding printers...
> >> The add printer wizard shows for the windows domain administrator,
> >> and he can add a printer right untill the last screen of the wizard -
> >> when he clicks the finish button, it shows the error:
> >>
> >> Add Printer Wizard
> >> Unable to Install Printer. Access is denied.
> >>
> >
> > You need 2 things for this to work:
> >
> >   1.) a setting in smb.conf "add printer command =
> > /path/to/smb-add-printer-script.sh"
> >   2.) an actual "smb-add-printer-script.sh" script in named path
> >
> > So far, I don't know of anyone who has written a reliably working "add
> > printer command" script which works with CUPS.
> >
> > By own efforts got stuck some time ago because of a weird re-naming
> > problem
> > (Samba re-named my newly created printer because it executed the script
a
> > 2nd time somehow....)
> >
> > I will probably revisit that topic within the next few weeks.
> >
> > The point is that the script needs to take the variables to run CUPS
> > "lpadmin"
> > from what the user filled into the "Add Printer Wizard" fields....
> >
> >> The only thing i can think of is that he has no permission to add a
> >> cups printer? The driver files are correctly copied across to PRINT$,
> >> but then straight after this the error appears.
> >>
> >
> > The usefulness of the "APW" for you (without the "add printer
> > command") is
> > currently limited to add new drivers and for existing printqueues....
> >
> >> Here is my smb.conf:
> >>
> >
> > It misses the "add printer command" line....
> >
> >> [global]
> >>         workgroup = MYDOMAIN
> >>         server string = samba test
> >>         security = DOMAIN
> >>         password server = pwdserver
> >>         log level = 1
> >>         syslog = 0
> >>         socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
> >>         printcap name = CUPS
> >>         os level = 2
> >>         preferred master = No
> >>         local master = No
> >>         idmap uid = 10000-20000
> >>         idmap gid = 10000-20000
> >>         admin users = MYDOMAIN\administrator
> >>         printer admin = MYDOMAIN\administrator
> >>         printing = cups
> >>         veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/
> >>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kurt
> >
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