[Samba] Can I copy printer print drivers to a new server

[Rob Tanner]

Adam,

I copied the ntdrivers.tdb file over and it kind of seems to be okay, 
but I also seem to have extra leading backslashes. Below is are examples 
taken from rpcclient -c "enumdrivers 2". The first is from socrates, the 
Samba-2 machine and the second from berkeley, the Samba-3 machine. In 
both cases it's the same driver.

Printer Driver Info 2:
Version: [3]
Driver Name: [HP Color LaserJet 3700 PCL 6]
Architecture: [Windows NT x86]
Driver Path: [\\socrates\print$\W32X86\3\UNIDRV.DLL]
Datafile: [\\socrates\print$\W32X86\3\HPC37006.GPD]
Configfile: [\\socrates\print$\W32X86\3\UNIDRVUI.DLL]

Printer Driver Info 2:
Version: [3]
Driver Name: [HP Color LaserJet 3700 PCL 6]
Architecture: [Windows NT x86]
Driver Path: [\\\\BERKELEY\print$\W32X86\3\UNIDRV.DLL]
Datafile: [\\\\BERKELEY\print$\W32X86\3\HPC37006.GPD]
Configfile: [\\\\BERKELEY\print$\W32X86\3\UNIDRVUI.DLL]

The issue of case not withstanding, notice how in the Samba-2 output, 
there are only two backslashes before the netbios name and the Samba-3 
output has four. Is that normal? Is there something I need to do to fix it?

Thanks,
Rob


On 01/30/2006 05:20 PM, Adam Nielsen wrote:
>> I am taking down a printer server running Samba 2.2.7 and replacing
>> it with a new Samba-3 server running on an entirely different box.
>> There are 15 different drivers installed on the old server (all added
>> at various times via a windows client) that I would like to move over
>> to the new server.  I've copied the files over to the new system and
>> I've looked at the adddriver command with rpcclient.  The problem is
>> that I don't really know very much about PC print drivers and so I
>> don't really know what to supply in terms of the arguments,
>> especially the lists of files.
>>     
>
> Have you tried simply copying all the files in the print$ share across
> to the new print$ share, then copying the .tdb files for each printer
> as well?  I've got no idea whether it'll work (or even if there
> were .tdb files in Samba-2) but that's where I'd start.
>
> Cheers.
> Adam.
>   

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Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR