[Samba] Printer Device Modes

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Ryan Suarez wrote:
| Greetings Admins,
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| The howto details setting the device mode using a windows client:
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http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2552900

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| Is there a way to script this process?  We support 260+ printers and
| it's a pain in the ass.  (My wrist is hurting!)

There is actually. You can store default initialization
data for each printer driver and then a printer will
get this information assigned when it is bound to the
driver.

What you do is to set a printer bound to the driver in
quetion to be like you want it and the send a SetPrinterData()
call to set the registry value named "_p_f_a_n_t_0_m_"
(type REG_BINARY) to some arbitrary value.  The value doesn't
really matter.  This tells smbd to save a snapshot of that
printer's data as the default initialization data for that
driver.

Then when you bind a new printer to the same driver, it will
be assigned that get that initialization data.

Hope this helps.






cheers, jerry
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