[Samba] Removing printers and faxes folder from windows explorer

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Dec 8 21:20:51 GMT 2004


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Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
|>Why do people care if the 'printers and faxes' folder shows
|>up ?
|
|
| On the same note, is there a way to get the Printers&Faxes
| to show up, but NOT  have the printers show up at the
| share level (\\servername)?  I hate how  cluttered it makes
| that look.  If I remember right, making them not
| browseable takes away all access to seeing the printers.

No.  Unlike Windows NT based servers, Samba does not
support printers that are not share to clients.  It could
be done, but we don't.




cheers, jerry
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