> Subject: [Samba] CUPS postscript driver - setting up **ERRATA** > > > > [Samba] CUPS postscript driver - setting up **ERRATA** > > Chris Aitken chris at ion-dreams.com > > Thu Jan 29 12:14:02 GMT 2004 > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > Following instructions from here: > > http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/CUPS-printing.html#id2942237 > > > > and also in the "Official Samba Howto" book, I tried to install > the CUPS PS > > driver using cupsaddsmb. > > > > It failed due to various reasons, and then I finally got it to work. > > > > When I unpacked the latest tar.gz file > (cups-samba-5.0rc3.tar.gz) it doesn't > > unpack the files as: > > > > cupsdrvr.dll > > cupsui.dll > > cups.hlp > > > > but as > > > > cupsdrv5.dll (5 instead of r) > > cupsui5.dll (extra 5) > > cups5.hlp (extra 5). > > > > That version 5 of the CUPS PostScript Driver is not (yet) meant to > be used with cupsaddsmb. (Unfortunately its docu doesn't make that > really clear). > > It is meant to be used by the "CUPS IPP Client for Win NT/2K/XP" (which > allows driver and printer installation on the clients without and > independently of Samba. Also, it is a "version 3" driver (non-Kernel > mode), IIRC (but I might err).
I was wondering whether it was a version 3 driver or not - either way, cupsaddsmb stuff it into W32X86\2\, as a kernel mode driver. It works though - once the files are renamed (after untarring). Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
