samba - Sep 2003 - Howto install multiple printers using the same driver for Samba on Linux?

Hi, I would like to install multiple printers (about a hundred) to my Linux
site.
I have created a smb.conf-file with all the printers  (and also a printers.conf
as I use CUPS for printing).
 The printers are e.g. HP LJ 4050 and I do not want to install every one the
manual way (I use NT for that).
 When I manually installs a printer e.g. HP LJ 4050 with driver within lj345.exe
from microsoft, the suitable files will be installed in the print$ path set in
the smb.conf, (I use,
/var/lib/samba/printers/) W32X86/2 or 3-file.
>From here I would like an automatic install of the next printer with the
same model using the already installed driver, but I get this message
"....The driver for the specified printer is not
installed......." .
 Any hints to install all the printers with suitable drivers in one go?

Best Regards Bertil Starck

If you use CUPS for printing each printer has an individal name
(printer queue). So every user can take the right printer.
You can find the printer PPD with names of their printer queue
in the directory /etc/cups/ppd.
With the program cupsaddsmb these PPDs are copied to $print folder
and are publicly available. If you use also the CUPS Postscript
driver the driver together with the PPDs can be downloaded to
every Windows client using the printer installation wizard.
So every user can install his own printer.
Read the CUPS-Chapter in SAMBA-HowTo-Collection (in the SAMBA3-archive)
for details

Guenther wrote:

If you use CUPS for printing each printer has an individal name
(printer queue). So every user can take the right printer.
You can find the printer PPD with names of their printer queue
in the directory /etc/cups/ppd.
With the program cupsaddsmb these PPDs are copied to $print folder
and are publicly available. If you use also the CUPS Postscript
driver the driver together with the PPDs can be downloaded to
every Windows client using the printer installation wizard.
So every user can install his own printer.
Read the CUPS-Chapter in SAMBA-HowTo-Collection (in the SAMBA3-archive)
for details

Bertil wrote:

Thanks Guenther for your quick and informative reply.
But....that's not exactly what I was looking for, though.
I want to have the installation automated on the server-side, so that the
drivers for the specific printer are confirmed and installed on the Server.
There's no problem to install a printer on a local
PC.

On WIN/NT I would like to have a program, like "adprintx.exe" (from
www.jsifaq.com), where I can put these option "/c \\servername\printername
/n "drivername" /s "driver_path". This adprintx.exe works
fine and will put the desired printer on my local PC. Any hint on making it work
on the Server-side as well?

Best Regards Bertil Starck

Ch. 22.4 of the SAMBA Howto Collection gives hints regarding
network logon script. The text seems to be not complete yet
but will be a good aim.

But I think since the users use different printers you must
write individual logon scripts.

There should however be a pool of drivers for all devices.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Guenther Frick wrote:
> Ch. 22.4 of the SAMBA Howto Collection gives hints regarding
> network logon script. The text seems to be not complete yet
> but will be a good aim.
Oh? What is incomplete? Please provide either:

1) Your patch to the source so we can fix this before it ships
2) A summary of what is missing or incomplete
3) Point us in the direction of what is messed up

Please do not stop at having rung the bell, help solve the problem. Open
Source software is what it is because people help to solve the problem,
not just complain about it and walk away. :)

- John T.
>
> But I think since the users use different printers you must
> write individual logon scripts.
>
> There should however be a pool of drivers for all devices.
>
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org