[Samba] Printer driver interface different

Ryan Novosielski novosirj at umdnj.edu
Fri Aug 8 20:07:00 GMT 2008


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Had the same problem with the Aficio 350. You can just install the
driver locally and not use the Samba spool at all (direct IP printing).
That seems to be the best angle with my device. It's a shame, because it
really ought to work.

Matthew Forrest wrote:
> Hi there, I'm having a wierd problem where the driver for one printer
> displays a different UI from a samba server, compared to any other MS
> machine sharing the same printer.  I'm running an ubuntu box with samba
> 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4.  The printer is a Ricoh Afficio 5560.
> 
> I've tried copying the driver files from a win2k3 server to my samba box
> and installing the driver manually with rpcclient.  The UI still has the
> same problems.
> 
> A workaround is to set "use client driver = yes" but then I have to
> install the driver myself on all the clients.
> Is it possible to set this for just one printer?
> 
> Any ideas on what's going on, or what I should look at to resolve this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt


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