[Samba] Re: Printer Device Modes

[Igor Belyi]

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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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!)
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> 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.

Jerry, can you cut & paste what you just said into 
Samba-HOWTO-Collection? :o)

Igor