samba - Jan 2003 - Can't add print drivers for existing printers

I've just upgraded from Samba 2.0 (Debian 2.2 "potato") to Samba
2.2 (Debian
3.0 "woody"), and I'm trying to get the print driver functionality
working.

My test server is a Debian 3.0r1 system running Samba 2.2.3a. My test client 
is running Windows 2000 Professional SP1.

I'm following the procedure in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection, namely:

Browse to the Samba server
Open the Printers folder
Right-click a printer, select "Properties"
Click "No" when asked if I want to install a print driver
Advanced tab
"New Driver" button

If I don't have any printers installed on the client, I select the print 
driver from the list in the APDW and click "Finish." At this point, a
dialog
asking me for the Windows 2000 CD pops up. (Exact text: "Insert disk"
"Please
insert the Compact Disc labeled "Windows 2000 Server CD-ROM" into your
CD-ROM
drive (D:) and then click OK.")

It does not appear to be able to locate the correct driver files on the Win2k 
disc, and the process fails.

If I have already installed the printer (and installed a local print driver on 
the client), everything appears to work, except no driver is uploaded to my 
Samba server. It appears that the driver is (re-)installed on the client, 
instead of the server.

Windows XP SP1 seems to exhibit the exact same behavior.

I tried using Imprints next, but imprints.samba.org is dead, and 
imprints.samba.org doesn't seem to have any driver packages available.

What's going wrong?

This leads into another problem I'm having, but I CAN get you passed this
point:
>I've just upgraded from Samba 2.0 (Debian 2.2 "potato") to
Samba 2.2
(Debian
>3.0 "woody"), and I'm trying to get the print driver
functionality working.
>My test server is a Debian 3.0r1 system running Samba 2.2.3a. My test
client
>is running Windows 2000 Professional SP1.
>I'm following the procedure in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection, namely:
>Browse to the Samba server
>Open the Printers folder
>Right-click a printer, select "Properties"
>Click "No" when asked if I want to install a print driver
>Advanced tab
>"New Driver" button
This is the wrong procedure for uploading the drivers should be:

Browse to the Samba server
Open the Printers folder
Right-click inside the printers folder (not on a printer)
Click "Server Properties"
Go to Drivers tab
Click Add, Next, and Choose driver or Have Disk
       (if you would like to add newer drivers than are on the CD)
Click Next and choose driver versions.
Browse to correct INF files for each version, as prompted.
        (If you get an "access denied" message after if finishes
copying the
driver, you
         probably did this out of order.)

Once this is done, THEN you can:

Right click on printer, Choose properties
Say "No" to choose driver
Go to advanced tab

At this point, you shouldn't have to hit "New Driver".  You should
be able
to choose the driver from the drop down box to "associate" that driver
with
the printer.  At that point, automatic driver downloads should take place
when you add that printer to clients.  This part is not working for me.  If
you get this to work, please let me know what the fix might be!

My post on the list can be found at

http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2003-January/088171.html


Side Note:

I've found you don't have to use the Win2k disk.  You CAN download
fresh,
updated drivers, as long as those drivers install via an *.inf file, and
don't rely on a separate setup file.  You just have to be able to point them
in the correct direction, AND you have to point them to the specific driver
prompted.  It will then ask for the Win95 drivers.


D. Aaron McCaleb, MCSE, CNA
Information Systems Manager
Reed Engineering Group, Inc.
amccaleb@reed-engineering.com