[Samba] windows printer driver installation with samba and cups

Beat Morf beat.morf at duagon.com
Fri Nov 25 15:06:54 GMT 2005


Hi

Using:
- SUSE 9.2
- SAMBA 3.0.7
- CUPS 1.1.21

I am successfully using my network printer under cups. Now I would like to share this printer to all 
windows clients with samba. These are my smb.conf configurations:

**********************
[global]
         interfaces = eth0
         ...
         load printers = yes
         printing = cups
         printcap name = /etc/printcap
         printer admin = @mygroup

[print$]
         comment = Printer Driver
         path = /daten/printers
         browseable = yes
         guest ok = yes
         read only = yes
         write list = @mygroup

[printers]
         comment = All Printers
         path = /var/spool/samba
         browsable = yes
         guest ok = no
         writeable = no
         printable = yes
***********************

The rights for the directories are as follows:

myserver:/ # la daten/printers/
total 1
drwxrwxr-x   2 root mygroup  48 Nov 25 15:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root mygroup 472 Nov 25 14:59 ..

myserver:/ # la /var/spool/samba
total 0
drwsrwsrwx   2 root root  48 Jan 28  2005 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 368 Dec 13  2004 ..


Under my windows 2000 (and XP) client, I see my printer within the folder "PRINTERS". With 
"properties->No->Advanced->New Driver" (Windows-Driver-Wizard) I can specify the driver and follow 
all instructions. At the end, when I finish the wizard, a message "can not install driver. the 
procedure could not finished" appears.
Within the directory /daten/printers NO DRIVER is installed!

The log.smbd file says, that the user opens the "print$" share, but nothing else:
****
[2005/11/25 15:58:27, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(647)
   gonzales (192.168.0.54) connect to service print$ initially as user beat (uid=509, gid=100) (pid 
18552)
****

I allready read a lot of posts about similar problems, but didn't find any description that would 
fix my problem.

Did someone know this problem or see something similar?

thanks
beat


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