Michael, I have it working here. Do you have a "printer admin=" listed in the smb.conf ? Only users listed there can upload drivers. Let me know if that isn't it.
Josh Konkol, CNE MCSE Senior Network Analyst .~. GuideOne Insurance /V\ Mail Stop AB-1 /( )\ 515-267-2427 ^^-^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael MacIsaac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Samba downloading printer drivers > > > Hi list, > > Has anyone gotten Samba's feature of automatically downloading printer > drivers working? Documentation on this feature is very thin. > > With Samba 2.2.5 I've defined [print$], got all permissions right and > created WIN40/ and W32X86/ under [print$]/path and copied > what I believe > are all the necessary drivers to the directory. Windows > still doesn't find > the drivers. > > I've also tried the recommended method of populating the drivers > directories via the Windows Add Printer Wizard (APW). The > APW asks for > drivers, I point to them and click Finish, but always get the error > "Printer driver was not installed. Operation could not be > completed". The > APW talks to smbd, but the last useful communication seems to be > GETPRINTDRIVERSDIRECTORY or something similar, with nothing > resembling an > error. > > Thanks. > > -Mike MacIsaac, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061 >
