samba - Sep 2012 - Samba 3 printing and CUPS

I am trying to set up Samba 3 with CUPS printers, and installing the drivers to
the server.

I have been able to add drivers to the server just fine, but when a client
connects to a printer and tries to set it up, Windows 7 is seeing a null printer
type, so it is not finding the appropriate drivers.

Windows 7 says "The '' printer driver is not installed on this
computer ?."

So it appears that the type of printer is null when it gets passed back to
windows 7, and it doesn't know what kind of printer to search for drivers
for.

CUPS has the correct printer models listed in it.

Am I missing something?

In addition, this is what I am seeing in CUPS:

Unpacked printer [PRINTERNAME] name [\\SERVER\PRINTERNAME] running driver []

> Have you tried adding the directive "use client drivers = yes" in
the printers section of smb.conf?
Carolos,

I have not.  The reason is because in the man page I read "This parameter
MUST not be enabled on a print share which has valid print driver installed on
the Samba server."

But in fact, I want to install printer drivers to the Samba server, and from
best I can tell, it is installing them successfully.  The files are going into
the correct path, and Windows is not returning an error.

Unless I am misunderstanding that option completely?

Hi Kristofer,

Have you tried adding the directive "use client drivers = yes" in the 
printers section of smb.conf?



On 9/25/2012 3:55 PM, Kristofer wrote:
> I am trying to set up Samba 3 with CUPS printers, and installing the
drivers to the server.
>
> I have been able to add drivers to the server just fine, but when a client
connects to a printer and tries to set it up, Windows 7 is seeing a null printer
type, so it is not finding the appropriate drivers.
>
> Windows 7 says "The '' printer driver is not installed on this
computer ?."
>
> So it appears that the type of printer is null when it gets passed back to
windows 7, and it doesn't know what kind of printer to search for drivers
for.
>
> CUPS has the correct printer models listed in it.
>
> Am I missing something?
>