[Samba] "New Driver" button greyed out on Windows Client Despite having sufficient rights

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Donald Wong wrote:

> I'm trying to add/connect to printers through samba, and tried to go
> through the "Add Printer Wizard" by clicking "No" for the "Do you want
> to install the driver now?" Prompt, but now the "New Driver" button
> under "Advanced" tab is greyed out, and there's nothing to choose from
> the printer driver list.
> 
> I googled and the only response that I've found so far are about
> insufficient rights, so I checked that I'm within the printer admin
> group but still not able to use the "New Driver" button.  I even try to
> just list myself as the printer admin and still didn't work.  I also
> have sufficient rights to access the print$ share.

Something is still wrong then, because the button is greyed out by the 
windows client when the OpenPrinter() with admin access fails.

I didn't see a 'printer admin' line in the global section.





cheers, jerry
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