[Samba] package aware type 3 print drivers

[Stefan Kania]

Hi Björn,

Samba is not supporting package aware drivers. Take a look at my
tutorial from this year SambaXP, it was about printer server with Samba:
https://www.kania-online.de/veroeffentlichungen/https://www.kania-online.de/veroeffentlichungen/
The tutorial is at the end of the list.

Stefan

Am 03.11.21 um 09:57 schrieb Lambertz, Björn via samba:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> I got a question about package aware type 3 print drivers on samba. I
> uploaded the newest type 3 Ricoh Universal Drivers (PS and PCL) to my samba
> print server. They are not shown as package aware in the print management
> console (extra column to add). 
> 
>  
> 
> The driver inf file says, the driver is package aware and on the windows
> print server the same driver is shown as package aware. 
> 
>  
> 
> Also it does not behave like a type 3 package aware driver: the windows
> clients need administrative rights to install the driver - the same driver
> from windows print server can be installed without giving admin credentials.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Is this a bug?
> 
>  
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 and samba version 4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.10 (newest
> available in distro repo) and spoolssd is enabled.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for any insights,
> 
> Björn
> 
> 

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