Hi, I've set up my smb.conf file with individual entries for the printers that I want to share out to Win95 / NT clients. I've also got 'load printers = no' specified in smb.conf, and the default 'printers' section commented out entirely. Firstly; I still get a 'Printers' system folder when brosing the linux machine from an NT client running windows explorer - is this always created behind the scenes when I have any entries in smb.conf specified as printable?? (It's behaviour that I want, so I'm not worried about getting rid of it!) Secondly, the 'printers' folder mentioned above is empty. The printers I have defined appear at the same level as the 'printers' folder, as they would for an NT-based printserver, but not in the 'printers' folder itself - how do I get this behaviour?? (I tried things such as specifying 'load printers = yes' and having a 'printers' section available in my smb.conf and set to browsable. Thirdly, is there a way of getting an NT / '95 client to install the printer driver for a printer shared out on the linux box as would be possible with an NT based server? I've seen reference to a document along these lines but it only says it works for '95 clients, plus it looks as though the mechanism used to install the driver from the remote share is slightly different (that may not be the case, I haven't actually tried it yet!) Any ideas? Be nice to get rid of our NT-based print server but we need to come up with something that looks no different from a client's point of view (most of our client machines are NT). cheers Jules ps. this is samba 2.0.3 on Redhat 5.2 (kernel 2.2.9), security set to server and configured to use an external password server.
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:40:50 +1000, hai scritto:>possible with an NT based server? I've seen reference to a document >along these lines but it only says it works for '95 clients, plus it >looks as though the mechanism used to install the driver from the remote >share is slightly different (that may not be the case, I haven't >actually tried it yet!)The document is in the samba-docs (samba tarball). I have not winnt, the doc says it doesn't work with winnt clients. I've tried it with win9x and it works as expected (at least so it seems to me): win9x pcs download the printer drivers from samba just as they do with a "print-server" win9x pc. -- giulioo@tiscalinet.it
As a follow-up to my email yesterday - I got Linux to serve out printer drivers to NT clients by simply copying everything from the hidden share on our NT printserver onto the linux printserver under a similar share name and then setting 'printer driver' and 'printer driver location' in smb.conf accordingly. It works with an HP laserjet 4, and will presumably work for other printers too. I haven't tried serving printer drivers to Win95 clients yet, but then that doesn't work with our current NT-based printserver anyway, so it's way down the list of priorities... :) I still don't know why I don't see anything in the printers system folder when browsing the linux box, but the whole 'printers' folder concept seems to be an NT-client-only thing anyway (it doesn't appear in '95) so it isn't a huge problem if it isn't possible to simulate using Samba... cheers Jules>
Hai, doesn't use win 95 a hidden share like: \\win95machine\printer$ (watch the '$' at the end of printer$) I think this is a major security hole in windows, I gues you should only see printer drivers in here, and not the whole \windows\system directory. Ries