[Samba] pdf printer

Matthew Western
Tue, 03 Jun 2003 06:44:13 -0000

Hmm.  i'm not sure where it's going wrong...

> > The other part is the "Install-PDF-Printer-on-Windows". Here
you have
> > several options. My recommendation is the
> > "Use-the-CUPS-PostScript-Drivers-for-Windows-NT/2K/XP"
> > -and-export-with-the-help-of-cupsaddsmb" one.
>
> Sorry I'm still a little confused here. Can I do "cupsaddsmb -H
> PRNSERVER printer PDFPrinter" to setup PostScript driver (adist5.ppd)
> for Win9x/NT/2000, so users can download them from their personal
> workstations? If so, then I don't need to add arbitrary color laser
> printer from Windows?

>I tried "cupsaddsmb -v PDFprinter", but system complaints that it
cannot
>find PDFprinter.ppd. I tried copy PDFprinter.ppd to almost every folder,
>but still no luck. I'm doing this right? Where should I put
>PDFprinter.ppd?

/etc/cups/ppd/HPAusco.ppd
/etc/cups/ppd/laserjet.ppd
/etc/cups/ppd/Adist4.ppd

is where my ppds live.    i remember doing this once for my first HPLJ4
printer and then not doing it again but simply modifying the printers.conf
and then restarting cups.  perhaps try copying an existing .ppd file to the
pdfprinter.ppd ?     sorry, i'm a little lost.

i've only done one print server so i'm not an expert by any means..  :(

good luck.
regards
Matthew