samba - Jan 2004 - Auto printer dirver install for windows client

Dear Sir,

We have HP Laserjet 4000 / 4050 printer, I made Redhat Linux as my print 
server, I was not able to auto install the printer dirver to windows 
client machine, I tried various option make driver auto install, now 
print job is come to the queue but it's not printing.

If any solutions for this problem, pls. mail me.


Thanks in advance

Nandish

Hi Nandish,
 
> We have HP Laserjet 4000 / 4050 printer, I made Redhat Linux 
> as my print server, I was not able to auto install the 
> printer dirver to windows client machine, I tried various 
> option make driver auto install, now print job is come to the 
> queue but it's not printing.
> 
I've just set up an HP4000 on a Debian system.  I used the latest
foomatic drivers from  linuxprinting.org a recent CUPS system, samba
3.0.1-2, the cups-samba drivers for windows from http://www.cups.org/
(CUPS Driver for Windows 5.0rc30) and the samba-client tools which
include the cupsaddsmb utility.  If you follow the documentation for
samba 3 from the samba web site, it should work for you.

Set-up the printer through cups use the APPsocket/HP JetDirect and enter
the printers IP connection(print test page from windows box to find it
if unkown) socket://192.168.0.39:9100/  and print a test page. If that
works then proceed to use the cupsaddsmb -A -v, as described in the
documentation.

Cheers,

Lewis Shobbrook

The way I did it was:

Use redhat-config-printer to set the printer up, making sure you make it a Raw 
print queue (ie no driver), then make sure you can print from the linux box 
(print a test page, or dump some PostScript/PCL to it to make sure it can see 
the printer). Then make sure you can see the printer share when you browse to 
the server through My Network Places on Windows. Go into the Printers folder 
on the Server, select File > Server Properties, then upload the drivers and 
associate them with the printer in the dialogue boxes that come up.

My Windows clients now automatically download and install the printer drivers 
(I use the PS ones), and can do "point-and-print"

(I don't normally run Win2k on the desktop so can't verify these steps
exactly
but it should be reasonably obvious - it took me about 5 minutes to work out 
how to do it)

edd

On Friday 16 Jan 2004 5:56 am, Nandish wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> We have HP Laserjet 4000 / 4050 printer, I made Redhat Linux as my print
> server, I was not able to auto install the printer dirver to windows
> client machine, I tried various option make driver auto install, now
> print job is come to the queue but it's not printing.
>
> If any solutions for this problem, pls. mail me.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Nandish
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