On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, James M Pulver wrote:
I'm not really sure where the right place to ask this question as it touches on so many disparate technologies, but here goes. I'm trying to set up Windows 7 clients to print to printers served from SL5.5 CUPS server using SAMBA to provide windows print sharing. We've got it working with the default CUPS postscript drivers, but it requires Admin on the Windows clients to install the driver.
SL5.5 has two versions of samba, v3.0.33 from the samba-* packages and v3.3.8 from the samba3x-* packages. Since you are talking about Windows 7 I assume you are using the samba3x-* packages ?
So I want to manage this obviously and thought I could create a GPO using GPP Printer and set as a shared printer under the user part of the GPO. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work - I get various access denied. I expect this has something to do with even though SAMBA is joined to the same AD Domain as the Windows 7 clients, the machine accounts don't map to anything on the Linux side...
I haven't tried this with Windows 7 or samba3x but do remember that with an earlier samba (probably v2.x) I *did* map the machine accounts to something on the linux side.
I'm mostly wondering if anyone is doing something like this, and how they got it to work - or if there's a better managed way to do this. I.E. do you have Linux print to a Windows Print server? Use scripts to push printers to Windows? Some other method I don't know?
In the past I have had my windows machines print to a windows print server, which prints to a linux print server, but that was in the days when lpr was a first-class service on both platforms, rather than a forgotten optional extra. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
