Nicholas Waltham
2000-Apr-19 20:39 UTC
Automatic Installation of Printer Drivers from Printer Share
Using Samba 2.0.6 Hi All, I have this working fine for Windows 95. I can double click on a printer share and when prompted install the printer driver from the hidden share \\%h\printer$. It says all over the notes that this will only work under Windows 95, and will not work for Windows NT. However looking in the archives of this group, I can see that some people report Windows NT working if they copy the entire contents of a Windows NT printer server share on to their samba server. Well I did this, and it works fine for Windows 95, but still doesn't work for Windows NT, it just seems that the files are not available. So whats the latest take on this? Does it work with NT? What's the secret of making it work if it does? (Incidentally this refers to quite a recent driver for a HP 4050N). Thanks in advance, Nicholas Waltham
Peter Samuelson
2000-Apr-21 12:09 UTC
Automatic Installation of Printer Drivers from Printer Share
[Nicholas Waltham]> So whats the latest take on this? Does it work with NT? What's the > secret of making it work if it does?Upgrade to Samba 2.0.8. Oh, wait, they haven't even released 2.0.7 yet. Well, when 2.0.8 *does* come out, NT printer driver support is supposed to be in it.... Meanwhile, the HEAD branch of CVS code has this, if you don't mind a little code instability. See the web pages for how to download CVS trees. Peter