samba and print driver options

[Darin Perusich]

i'm not using cupsaddsmb to install the drivers into samba, i'm actually 
installing them from a win2k client, it's just easier that way. i've 
started with a clean slate on the win2k machine, no printers or print 
drivers installed and installed the driver into samba. and with a local 
tcp/ip printer setup to print directly to this lpr(via cups) printer, i 
installed the local driver into samba. same results when attaching to 
the smb printer share.

i'm going to post the message i sent to the samba list to the cups list, 
hopefully i'll get some info there. i'd rather not have to install local 
printers on the win2k clients, that would be a pain.

thanks.

Robert Meyer wrote:
> Have you tried creating the samba printer on the W2K boxes and using the
> locally installed printer driver?  I've heard of weirdness where the driver
> versions on the server were out of date with the version on the local drive. 
> Since Samba sends data to the printer in raw format (rather than processing it
> on Ghostscript), whatever goes there comes directly from the windows box
> unmolested (it's already been molested sufficiently by Win) so there's nothing
> happening in CUPS or lprng that would affect that.
> 
> I would install the printer with the local drivers and see what happens...
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> --- Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> 
>>i've setup a samba print server for win2k clients that automaticly 
>>installs the driver on the client. i have a total of 4 printers, 3 HP 
>>8100dn's and 1 fiery RIP attached to a toshiba FC22. the HP's are fine, 
>>but the fiery driver on the samba server doesn't show all the paper 
>>sizes. yet when install as a local tcp/ip printer they show up.
>>
>>this machine is redhat7.3, samba 2.2.7, CUPS 1.1.14. when viewing this 
>>printers configurable options in CUPS all this info is avialable. i've 
>>posted this to the samba maillist and got one bit, i switched to CUPS 
>>from lprng but this didn't matter. any thoughts?
>>
>>-- 
>>Darin Perusich
>>Unix Systems Administrator
>>Cognigen Corp.
>>darinper at cognigencorp.com
>>
>>
> 
> 
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-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com