On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:29:20AM -0700, Michael O'Keefe wrote: > John Oliver wrote: > >I have a printer attached to a Fedora Core 5 box. I can connect to the > >printer just fine from Windows machines. Now, I'd like to get the > >automagic Windows driver download working, but I'm stuck... when I > >right-click on the printer in the Samba server's Printer and Faxes > >share, drivers are greyed out. I found a couple of hints about making > >sure that you're connecting as a user with printer admin, but Samba > >tells me that option is deprecated. I've tried setting Samba to allow > >anyone or guests to be able to write. Nothing is working. > > And this is after the inclusion of the hidden share for printer drivers > mentioned yesterday (/printer$ ??)
Yes :-) The issue appears to be that, when I connect, I'm connecting as some kind of "guest" or anonymous user. I've tried to make the printer and the printer share non-public, so it would be forced to give a login / password dialogue, but that doesn't work... it still just lets me in and shows everything greyed out. FWIW, this is in a workgroup environment, no domian. And the XP machines are all Home or MCE (don't ask...), so making Samba a DC isn't going to help :-( Some other docs talked about CUPS drivers for Windows, but I can't find them on cups.org or anywhere else. Googling turns up lots of other people asking where they are, but no location. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
