Correct from address ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gert van den Berg On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 17:23, James McKenzie wrote: > Source for your information on this? I know that printer drivers > require Administrator level privileges to install and make any required > registry changes. Those changes have to be user readable or they do not > work. > Non-admin users can install printer drivers (for network printers at least) and kernel-space drivers can be disabled from group policy.... (On the network printers: Windows seem to basically share the port, with the client running the driver. (This has the disadvantage that you need a driver for every OS that cleints might be running...) With CUPS, the server runs the driver and shares some standard interface...) > As to the requirements to install printer drivers and operate in > Windows/Linux/MacOSX. They run at RING 0 level, kernel. Not at Ring > 2/3 (user). Thus installing Windows only printers will NEVER happen in > Wine, as Wine strictly runs at ring 2/3. Thus you have to get a Linux > driver in order to run in Wine. > Pre-Windows 2000, yes.... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758604%28WS.10%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791648.aspx have some more information.... Gert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20100215/7994110a/attachment.htm>
