samba - Mar 1999 - Printing from NT to UNIX through SAMBA

robert m hazbun wrote:
>	 We now want to implement printer sharing and
> accounting using samba as well. 
	You actually wrote to the implementor's list: I've
	cc'd this to the regular list...
> We are looking for a solution similar to the Windows 95 Printer$ share that
is
> documented on the samba.org site.  
	I'm almost surprised the existing one didn't work.
	It is tricky to set up (you have to sing the incantation
	in exactly the right supplicating tone to get Windows
	to work), but NT clients should use exactly the same
	data as Win 95 clients do when installing local printer
	drivers.  After all, they both work from NT.

--dave
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David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
>         I'm almost surprised the existing one didn't work.
>         It is tricky to set up (you have to sing the incantation
>         in exactly the right supplicating tone to get Windows
>         to work), but NT clients should use exactly the same
>         data as Win 95 clients do when installing local printer
>         drivers.  After all, they both work from NT.
Downloading printers drivers to NT clients does not 
work currently becasue the necessary RPC functions are 
not implemented.  It's a work in progress.





Cheers,
jerry
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