[Samba] Samba / CUPS / Drivers

[rruegner]

hi,
normal you just click on the network printer on smb server
and load drivers aon the advanced modus all you have to is printer admin (
smb.conf )
study how to samba and printing,
after this is done the driver is uploaded and known to any client which will
connect later to the printer
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#id2918174
This section describes three familiar methods, plus one new one, by which
printer drivers may be uploaded.

If you want to use the MS-RPC type printing, you must upload the drivers
onto the Samba server first ([print$] share). For a discussion on how to
deposit printer drivers on the Samba host (so the Windows clients can
download and use them via "Point'n'Print"), please refer to the previous
chapter of this HOWTO Collection. There you will find a description or
reference to three methods of preparing the client drivers on the Samba
server:

  a.. The GUI, "Add Printer Wizard" upload-from-a-Windows-client method.

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".

  hope this helps,

  4.. i had a few hours struggle  with the setup but now it works with
win200, XP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anders Norrbring" <anders at norrbring.biz>
To: "'Chris Aitken'" <Chris at ion-dreams.com>; "'Samba user list'"
<samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba / CUPS / Drivers


> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use different driver
> > > > > file downloads for different printers on the system?  As
> > > of what I
> > > > > can see in all doc-files I can only use ONE set of
> > > drivers for all
> > > > > added printers?
> > > > >
> > > > > F.x. I have one printer that is handled by CUPS' PPD
> > > system, and one
> > > > > printer that uses RAW.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, the first printer (PPD) should have its feed in postscript
> > > > > format
> > > > from
> > > > > the Windows clients, so they get the Adobe PS driver set
> > > by download
> > > > when
> > > > > they add the printer to the system.
> > > > >
> > > > > But the second printer that should be fed by the Windows clients
> > > > > already processed stream, that is, they need the printer
> > > > > manufacturers native printer driver for Windows.  So, they should
> > > > > NOT get the Adobe friver, but a different set.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it doable?  I run CUPS v1.2.0b1 and Samba 2.2.5.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anders Norrbring
> > > >
> > > > Hi Anders,
> > > >
> > > > You want to run 2 different printers with samba/cups.
> > > >
> > > > 1 raw printer, and one PS printer.
> > > >
> > > > This is possible.
> > > >
> > > > I'd recommend upgrading CUPS though - 1.2 is quite old.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > >
> > > Thanks Chris, but CUPS v1.2 is pulled from CVS today, and not
> > > at all old..
> > > :)
> >
> > Oops - Read that as 1.1.2 :)
> >
> > Create a share in samba like this:
> >
> > [print$]
> >         comment = Printer Drivers
> >         path = /home/samba/drivers
> >         browseable = yes
> >         guest ok = no
> >         read only = yes
> >         write list = user
> >
> > Make sure that the user in write list is also listed in the printer
admin
> > section within the [printers] share.
> >
> > These instructions are for samba 3 - but the basis is the same for
> > uploading:
> >
> > http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/CUPS-printing.html#id2933866
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> Thanks again Chris,  but it isn't of much help I'm afraid.  No matter how
I
> try, I can't get those Windows drivers in place on the Linux server.  All
> that's there are the CUPS drivers, and they do download correctly.
>
> My client is a Windows XP Pro SP1, and nowhere in there I can manage to
> upload drivers for a printer to the Linux server..
>
> Anders Norrbring
>
>
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