The same problem occurs with Windows boxes sharing printers to other windows boxes using different operating systems.
There is an option to add drivers for other operating systems on shared windows printers. Robert What if there were no hypothetical questions? -----Original Message----- From: CF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2003 2:49 p.m. To: Linux Users Group Subject: Re: samba/cups - automatic downloading of printer driver to win client On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 14:36, Nick Rout wrote: > On win2k (via vmware) I can browse to //sf/hp (the printer), right click > on the hp icon and click "connect" - bang, printer going (at least I > assume it is using the ppd, it prints anyway!) > > However on win98 (separate box, son's machine) I browse to //sf/hp, > right click hp, click install and it asks me to choose a driver, instead > of knowing to get one off the server. > > Does anyone know a fix for this behaviour? for obscure reasons relating > to brain dead installers you can't just install the hp's printer driver > onto win98, it expects the printer to be atttached on the usb port > (which it ain't, cos it's attached to the server's usb port). Sounds like the print server is sharing a driver for the printer, which the win2k box can simply copy and use. However the print server hasn't got a driver shared that keeps the 98 box happy, or as you guess the driver makes assumptions. I'd install the 98 driver manually by running setup.exe or whatever, then it will probably create a printer icon for you pointing at LPT1 or USB: Then change the port on the 98 machine to refer to \\sf\hp and you should be good to go. The old DJ670 does that here too.
