[Samba] Adding a cups printer driver

[Stefan Petersen]

Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2005 18:47 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski:
> Stefan Petersen schrieb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have desperately tried to make samba able to share the printer with a
> > Win98SE client. First I tried cupsaddsmb, but that failed.
>
> (...)
>
> > Do somebody have an idea?
>
> using cupsaddsmb is the easiest.
> perhaps if you could describe why it failed (what command do you use,
> what postscript drivers you have etc.), we could help you.
>
> --
> Tomek


Hello Tomek,

thanks for your quick reply.

These are the drivers. They are the Adobe Postscript Drivers.
The files reside in /usr/share/cups/drivers.


coruscant ~ # ls -la /usr/share/cups/drivers
insgesamt 2249
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          240  5. Jun 17:33 .
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root          248  5. Jun 13:01 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       575573 11. Jul 2000  Adfonts.mfm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1297280 23. Apr 2002  Adobeps4.drv
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       233348 23. Apr 2002  Adobeps4.hlp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13493 23. Apr 2002  defprtr2.ppd
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       118128 23. Apr 2002  Iconlib.dll
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        57344 11. Jul 2000  Psmon.dll


The command for cupsaddsmb was:

cupsaddsmb -H coruscant -U root -h coruscant -v PagePro8L
Password for root required to access coruscant via SAMBA:
Running command: rpcclient coruscant -N -U'root%xxxx' -c 'setdriver PagePro8L 
PagePro8L'
added interface ip=192.168.1.20 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Succesfully set PagePro8L to driver PagePro8L.


But unfortuanately the directory of /etc/samba/drivers, as set in smb.conf is 
empty. I can browse the printer on the Win98 client, but it still asks for 
the driver. As far as I know it should get the drivers from the server, 
shouldn't it?

Then I have tried to add the printer manually, to see where the problem is 
located. The result of this try was the content of the first posting.

So I have no idea how to succeed.

Stefan.