On Wednesday 03 September 2003 14:38, Richard Heggs wrote: > Hi List, > > We have a large (6500 desktops) network distributed over a few dozen > sites. The clients are (almost) all Windows95 and WinXP. We currently > use Netware as our network operating system, and are looking at the > possibility of moving to (Samba on) Linux to provide file and print > services. > > One of the nice things about Novell NDS is that you can specify > printers that are available to certain PCs regardless of who logs into > them (no point in a user logging in at a remote site and being attached > to printers back in his office, several miles away). In other words, > printers are attached to PCs, whereas drive-mappings are attached to > users. > > I can see how to use Samba to control access to directories, but I > can't see an obvious way to manage the printers. Is it possible to do > this, other than by setting up each desktop by hand? > > Suggestions to RTFM (with a pointer to the relevant part of TFM) would > be much appreciated. :) > > Thanks, > -- See : http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win2000/Q_20630192.html You could make a logonscript for machines , like logon script = %m.bat which defines the printers to use for the machine from which is called a %U.bat for user specific settings. See allso http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBM/tip6000/rh6065.htm for a nifty utility (free) to add printers from a script. This exec could reside allso on the server from which it is called by the machine login script to add the printers with the appropriate options.
WB > Richard Heggs > Systems Analyst > City of Nottingham Council > -- UnetIX Linux Solutions BV -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
