Hi.
I'm sharing printers over samba, and I would like to know if there is a
way for a samba server to behave like a Windows Server, that is, when I
install a remote printer, it installs the respective drivers. When I
connect to a samba printer, it tells me that the server has no suitable
NULL printer drivers.
Is there a way to configure samba to do that?
Thanks
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Nuno Miguel Neves wrote:> > Hi. > I'm sharing printers over samba, and I would like to know if there is a > way for a samba server to behave like a Windows Server, that is, when I > install a remote printer, it installs the respective drivers. When I > connect to a samba printer, it tells me that the server has no suitable > NULL printer drivers. > Is there a way to configure samba to do that?See the info on the printers.def file. Works for Win9x. The code to work with NT has been checked into the HEAD branch but not documented yet. It should be released in the 2.1 distribution (whenever we get that out). Cheers, jerry ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
We are running NT4/TSE with Citrix Metaframe 1.8 and using Samba 2.0.5a running on Slackware Linux 7.1, which then maps to AIX filestore over NFS. We have a situation whereby sometimes when users' files/documents are stored on a samba drive and they try to print, it prints to a file NEnnn: rather than going to the networked printer. Printing is via lpd to a separate linux system. This happens even when they *haven't chosen* the print to file option. Logging in and logging out sometimes cures it. Moving their files to the local hard disk or an NTFS drive seemingly always cures it. But most of the filestore is on Unix so these solutions are poor workarounds. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Adrian Barker, Information Systems University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Tel (+44) 020 7679 2795 Fax (+44) 20 7388 5406 Email: A.Barker@ucl.ac.uk