On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:32, Lawson, Jim wrote: > > is there anyway to make the print drivers automatically pull down when > > you install a printer? Under windows Nt , 2k or 2003 server the > > drivers get pulled down automatically. > > Not really because the concept of "drivers" as you are used to in > windows is different in Linux. Meaning that if you have the software > needed to print it includes the "drivers" needed. If you're system is > all linux cups will automatically detect printers installed on other > cups enabled linux boxes and allow you to use it's printer / drivers. > (If for example I bring my laptop onto your network I will "see" your > printers and be able to print through them if I'm on the same lan.) So > although the approach is different the affect is the same in this case.
All that I'll add to this is that it's not entirely clear from the wording of the initial question whether or not the printing being done is local or remote, and if it's remote, whether we are dealing with Linux->Linux, Linux->Win, or Win->Linux. James's answer covers local and Linux->Linux situations nicely, and the printerdrake app should be able to set CUPS up properly in like manner when adding a remote printer that is being shared from a Win box, but jobs being sent from a Win box to a Linux-connected printer are different. They are processed by Samba, and there are two ways to set this up: have the Win system(s) install and use the appropriate Win driver for that printer, or have Samba use the CUPS driver and set up the Win system(s) to use the "Generic Postscript Printer" driver. Once you decide which method is best for you, you need to use the correct "print command" entry in /etc/samba/smb.conf to implement your choice. See the relevant comments within that file for more on this. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
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