On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 17:00, Tor Bechmann Sørensen wrote: > Thanks again for your reply. I did read the part you mention. I did > understand how to make the print$ share. The docs are clear on this part. > > I can now specify my question a bit more: what to do from there on to put > the nessecary files in that share? the docs are equally clear on this part.
6.2.2. Setting Drivers for Existing Printers The initial listing of printers in the Samba host's Printers folder will have no real printer driver assigned to them. By default, in Samba 2.2.0 this driver name was set to NO PRINTER DRIVER AVAILABLE FOR THIS PRINTER. Later versions changed this to a NULL string to allow the use tof the local Add Printer Wizard on NT/2000 clients. Attempting to view the printer properties for a printer which has this default driver assigned will result in the error message: Device settings cannot be displayed. The driver for the specified printer is not installed, only spooler properties will be displayed. Do you want to install the driver now? Click No in the error dialog and you will be presented with the printer properties window. The way assign a driver to a printer is to either * Use the "New Driver..." button to install a new printer driver, or * Select a driver from the popup list of installed drivers. Initially this list will be empty. If you wish to install printer drivers for client operating systems other than "Windows NT x86", you will need to use the "Sharing" tab of the printer properties dialog. Assuming you have connected with a root account, you will also be able modify other printer properties such as ACLs and device settings using this dialog box. A few closing comments for this section, it is possible on a Windows NT print server to have printers listed in the Printers folder which are not shared. Samba does not make this distinction. By definition, the only printers of which Samba is aware are those which are specified as shares in smb.conf. Another interesting side note is that Windows NT clients do not use the SMB printer share, but rather can print directly to any printer on another Windows NT host using MS-RPC. This of course assumes that the printing client has the necessary privileges on the remote host serving the printer. The default permissions assigned by Windows NT to a printer gives the "Print" permissions to the "Everyone" well-known group. ________________________________________________________________________ > > I am not using windows myself, but my users are. The instructions given in the doc > you mention seems to be applicable > only if you have a NT server from which you want to upload drivers, or? as specified in section 6.2.2 you must use a windows computer (not necessarily a windows NT server) to upload the drivers. > The printer in question is a HP Laserjet 5M, and lpr is used for handling > printjobs from samba. Do I need to collect files from windows installation > cds and manually copy them to the share? You need to download the driver for the laserjet5m from hp and use the add printer wizard from a client computer (as specified in the docs) Do not try to install these drivers by hand - you would need to populate various tdb files etc. to make it work. the mechanism for spooling from your samba server to the printer is irrelevant to driver downloading. > What should I call the folder in > which I put drivers for WindowsXP? make the directory structure as specified in secitno 6.2.1 that will work for windowsXP, 2k NT 98 etc. > I assume that I can replace @ntadmin > with my own account name, or? yes > And how will the printer installation wizard > look to my users afterwards? they won't see a printer intallation wizard - they right click the printer they want and choose connect - the driver is then downloaded from the server and installed locally without further user interaction. brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba