[Samba] Re: pdf printer

Matthew Western
Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:17:56 -0000

Hmm.  i've not even tried it on windows95/98 as we are only on 2k/XP here.
i'll setup a test machine and see what i find...   i have got a driver for
9x but i browsed to \\sambamachine then printers then right clicked on the
printer and sad additional drivers stuck in the windows2k terminal server CD
(lots of drivers on there) and said do it.

linux = strange case?  i ask myself that several times a day as i'm trying
to replace microcrust servers with linux ones slowly but surely.  why me why
me.  :)

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+mwestern=affairs.net.au@lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+mwestern=affairs.net.au@lists.samba.org]On Behalf
Of Norman Zhang
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:23 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Re: pdf printer


Hi,

> > > But this only covers the "Install-PDF-Printer-on-CUPS"
part.
> > >
> > > 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?

I now have it working on NT/2000. But in 9x/ME, it complains that
pdfprinter.PPD not found. I checked WINNT40\0\, pdfprinter.PPD is in there.
I even made duplicates like PDFPRINTER.PPD and pdfprinter.ppd, copied the
file to a local disk, but 9x/ME still cannot find it. Could this be a bug
somewhere? I don't know why I'm seeing all these strange cases 8(

Regards,
Norman




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