samba and print driver options

[Cyber Source]

I haven't been watching this thread too closely so forgive me if this
question seems to be out of the current progression but, I take it you
are having trouble printing from a W2K client to a printer via Samba? I
had this same problem and did fix it. Let me know if this is the case
and I can tell you what I did.
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:51, Darin Perusich wrote:

> 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 versions on the server were out of date with the version on the local drive.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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Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
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