samba - Jan 2002 - automatically setting up printer drivers on clients

Hello all, I've sucessfully set up a samba server on RH 7.2 to serve
printing to my clients...  I've used "make_printerdef" and created
a
printers.def file to automatically send drivers on down to the client,
but I've ran into trouble on a newer inkjet (HP Deskjet 840c).  Because
it's driver is not in the stock NT "ntprint.inf," I've had to
download
the drivers from HP.  When I ran "make_printerdef" on the included inf
file (hpf840n.inf) I get the output

Printer not found	No [Strings] block in inf file

How can I set up this driver to get set up on the clients
automatically?  Is there a faq somewhere on how to do
"make_printerdef"
manually?

Thanks -

Nick

On 25 Jan 2002, Nick Pietraniec wrote:
> Hello all, I've sucessfully set up a samba server on RH 7.2 to serve
> printing to my clients...  I've used "make_printerdef" and
created a
> printers.def file to automatically send drivers on down to the client,
> but I've ran into trouble on a newer inkjet (HP Deskjet 840c).
> Because it's driver is not in the stock NT "ntprint.inf,"
I've had to
> download the drivers from HP.  When I ran "make_printerdef" on
the
> included inf file (hpf840n.inf) I get the output
>
> Printer not found No [Strings] block in inf file
>
> How can I set up this driver to get set up on the clients
> automatically?  Is there a faq somewhere on how to do
> "make_printerdef" manually?
Please upgarde to 2.2.2 and read the Printing CHapter in the
Samba-HOWTO-Collection.  Things have changed quite a bit in
2.2....





chau, jerry
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