samba - May 2002 - Automatic Printer Driver Downloading - Does it work?

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has gotten automatic printer driver
downloading to work?

The problem I'm seeing here is while trying to upload a printer
driver to the Samba print server using Windows 2000 or XP.
The Add Printer Driver Wizard runs ok until I click on the
Finish button, then it requires a Windows 2000 Advanced Server
CD-ROM to be installed, to get a driver out of the
printers\NT4\I386 directory.  Is there any way around this?

Jay Ts
jayts@iname.com

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 10:55, Jay Ts wrote:
> The problem I'm seeing here is while trying to upload a printer
> driver to the Samba print server using Windows 2000 or XP.
> The Add Printer Driver Wizard runs ok until I click on the
> Finish button, then it requires a Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> CD-ROM to be installed, to get a driver out of the
> printers\NT4\I386 directory.  Is there any way around this?
Yes, uncheck the boxes for alternate OS printer choices. For example, if
using a Win2k system to upload Win2k drivers only, uncheck the "NT4
Win2k" combo selection and check "Win2k" only. Or supply the
alternate
driver, either via the server disk or by browsing to the location of the
driver.

Chris

--
'Nix MS - Just Say .NyET

What kind of printer?

If you have the printer driver installed
on your system already, instead of browsing
the requested CD, browse to one of these:

(in the following order)
\winnt\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2
\winnt\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
\winnt\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86
\winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color
\winnt\system32\spool\drivers\win40
\winnt\system
\winnt\system32

to find the requested driver.

  If you have Win2k SP2, extract it and
browse in the \i386 dir & subdir's.

  If you have HP printers, extract those
and install from there, using the .inf file
to get a list of the available printers.

  If you have AdobePS or LexMark drivers,
add "use client driver=yes" to the smb.conf
section that pertains to that printer.

e.g.
[Optra_S_1250]
        comment = Lexmark Optra S 1250
        path = /var/spool/samba/optra
        writeable = false
        printable = true
        printer name = optra
        use client driver = yes

Good luck,

Jim

p.s.
chmod -R 0744 the print$ share dir/subdirs.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Ts [mailto:jay@metran.cx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 7:56 AM
> To: samba@samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Automatic Printer Driver Downloading - Does it work?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has gotten automatic printer driver
> downloading to work?
> 
> The problem I'm seeing here is while trying to upload a printer
> driver to the Samba print server using Windows 2000 or XP.
> The Add Printer Driver Wizard runs ok until I click on the
> Finish button, then it requires a Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> CD-ROM to be installed, to get a driver out of the
> printers\NT4\I386 directory.  Is there any way around this?
> 
> Jay Ts
> jayts@iname.com
> 
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