[Samba] Re: Howto delete printer driver for only one architecture?

Christoph Peus cp at peus.net
Fri Feb 18 15:48:47 GMT 2005


Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

> |> | Therefore I would like to delete these old drivers, but
> |> | I don't know how to achieve this without
> |> | deleting the drivers for all architectures
> |>
> |> Use a windows 200 or later client.  Browse to the
> |> server's 'printers and faxes' folder.
> |>
> |> Now File -> Server properties and got to the driver
> |> tab.  You can select the specific driver and architectures
> |> there.
> |
> | Thanks for your quick reply, but it doesn't solve
> | the problem for me, because the "add" and "delete"
> | buttons are grayed out (not usable) in
> | this context, though I logged in with admin rigths. (I hope so)
> 
> If they are greyed out, you don't have admin rights.  You have to
> defined the 'printer admin' option in [global] to get things to work
> well.  And I realize that this is kind of a documentation bug.
> Or you can use the SePrintOperatorPrivilege in Samba 3.0.11

Thanks a lot! With "printer admin" defined in the global section it works 
as expected.

Christoph



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