Re: SMB server with CentOS 4

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:59, Feizhou wrote:

> > 
> > No, I meant on a Windows client.  You can use a Windows client to
> > install Windows drivers to a Samba print server that's operating in
> > raw mode.  Then you can configure the printer driver from the Windows
> > client, and I'm pretty sure that saves the default settings on the
> > Samba server.  Then you can point-and-print from Windows (no manual
> > driver installation needed), just as you could if you were using full
> > (non-raw) Samba-CUPS integration.
> 
> Er...those drivers are installed on the Windows client, not the samba 
> server. Bryan's case is rather special. He is not talking about a raw 
> queue but a postscript queue. Since it is postscript, all the Windows 
> clients just need to install a postscript print driver (which of course 
> will be downloaded from the Samba server) and then they are done. The 
> printer settings will have been setup on the Samba server via CUPS as he 
> said.

I haven't done this but was under the impression that samba could
associate any windows print driver (not just postscript) with
a shared printer and it would auto-install the driver on the
windows client when the printer was set up there.

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  Les Mikesell
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