samba - Feb 2008 - setup printing without a Windows PC client, how?

I am setting up Samba as a work-around for situation in a Debian/Mac
OS X LAN. I have several Debian boxes and several Macs in a small
LAN. A new addition is my daughter's new Mac laptop which came with
Leopard installed.  Older Macs connected to netatalk on a Debian Etch
box, but I can't get Leopard to connect. So I'm trying to get Samba
running and serving to Mac clients.

The problem is a print driver for samba. Set up instructions from
which I working say a driver can be found on one of the client PCs on
the LAN, but ... my LAN is something of a outlier. Where can I get a
suitable driver? Or is the 'driver' merely a .ppd which I already have
(and have tried)?  If a ppd is what I need, then something else is
wrong and I will have to ask some other questions, but for now I think
my problem is a print driver for a computer that isn't on my
LAN. Advice?

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net

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Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am setting up Samba as a work-around for situation in a Debian/Mac
> OS X LAN. I have several Debian boxes and several Macs in a small
> LAN. A new addition is my daughter's new Mac laptop which came with
> Leopard installed.  Older Macs connected to netatalk on a Debian Etch
> box, but I can't get Leopard to connect. So I'm trying to get Samba
> running and serving to Mac clients.
> 
> The problem is a print driver for samba. Set up instructions from
> which I working say a driver can be found on one of the client PCs on
> the LAN, but ... my LAN is something of a outlier. Where can I get a
> suitable driver? Or is the 'driver' merely a .ppd which I already
have
> (and have tried)?  If a ppd is what I need, then something else is
> wrong and I will have to ask some other questions, but for now I think
> my problem is a print driver for a computer that isn't on my
> LAN. Advice?
This is covered in either the manual or the cookbook and is done with
rpcclient, if you're asking what I think you're asking.

=R

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On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am setting up Samba as a work-around for situation in a Debian/Mac
> OS X LAN.
I'm missing something here, as both Linux and OS X natively support 
CUPS, why involve Samba with the printing at all?

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Chris