samba - May 1999 - SAMBA digest 2110

On 30 May 99,,  samba@samba.org had questions about SAMBA digest 2110:
> There are selection boxes, e.g. a printer driver selection box,
> which do not work. In the box, I can see only one printer. But in
> the driver directory, there are more than 20 printer driver
> files. Doing a dir in the subdirectory which contains the printer
> drivers works fine. I can see all those driver files, and I can
> take a look at those files in the subdirectory with the
> type-command in the Dos-box. 
If it's really a DOS app, then it can only see windoze printers if 
they have "captured" a port (ie, lpt1, lpt2, etc).  It's up to the
application to let you set up the printer port(s), ie, how many 
parallel ports it knows about.  You may also need to set some DOS 
environment variables and/or play with the windoze DOS box settings.

Our old server dude was a wiz at getting DOS/windoze apps to work 
on mounted Netware drives, but that's about all I know.

Hope this helps, Steve


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Steve Arnold                     http://www.rain.org/~sarnold

Linux:  It's not just for nerds anymore...

Samy,

thank you for your answer to my SAMBA-problem. Maybe I didn't say
clear enough what the problem is. I can use the program. I can print.
But I can't change the printer driver. There is a directory with
45 printer driver files. I can look at them from a Dos-box 
with dir and type. But my application in its Dox-box does not
see them. The application reads the contents of the directory and
shows it in a listbox. But the application obviously
behaves as if there was only one file in that directory.
Obviously, I have sufficient rights. But my application,
that works fine on the Novell-server, sees only the first of those
files. The other 44, which are always found on the Novell-server,
are not found on the SAMBA-server. 

Bye


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