[TriLUG] Samba Question

[Mark Fowle]

I am trying to get "Point'NClick" under samba 3.0 to work -- Trying to
get Windows to recognize the drivers and download them automatically -
right now when you doubleclick the samba shared printers, the drivers
show up, but the wizard runs - I am trying to get it to do it without
the interactive wizard, or if worse comes to worst, just having windows
send the data to the print server and having the print server (aka
samba) handle the rest without downloading the drivers (if possible)

mark

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 21:58, Jim Ray wrote:
> All winders boxes need drivers.  Only the source varies.  To test a driver
> problem, get the printer working when connected directly to the computer
> instead of going through a server queue.
> 
> Having samba dish out the driver is news to me.  Winders doesn't have a
> problem with it.
> 
> Hth,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Rob Lockhart
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:58 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Samba Question
> 
> 
> I think that what Mark is saying is that you shouldn't need any drivers 
> installed for Windows, if it is a network printer.  I have done this 
> before (work network printers), and through windows, you tell it to add 
> the network printer, and it gets the drivers from the print server (it 
> appears to, anyway).  When I get back to work, I'll confirm it with the 
> network admins (presuming they're using Samba as a print server and not 
> Windows NT/2k as the server).
> 
> Regards,
>   -Rob
> 
> (apologies for the top-post)
> 
> Jim Ray wrote:
> 
> >Try downloading the latest driver off the web.  Piecing together 
> >drivers and inf sounds more like a winders problem.
> >
> >Sometimes, manufacturers like HP will have stripped-down "corporate" 
> >drivers that work best and other drivers for "home" users that have a 
> >bunch of fudge packed in 'em.  I wouldn't fool with the latter...
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Fowle [mailto:mark at thefowles.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:15 PM
> >To: jim at neuse.net; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> >Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Samba Question
> >
> >
> >I'm using a Lexmark E323 -- I've been trying to piece together all the 
> >drivers it wants from looking in the inf file, but I'm still missing 
> >something...
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:00, Jim Ray wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I use hp jetdirect and have no prob printing from winblows xp w/
> >>standard ip port or linux w/ CUPS.
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> >>Behalf Of Mark Fowle
> >>Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:05 PM
> >>To: trilug
> >>Subject: [TriLUG] Samba Question
> >>
> >>
> >>I am using samba 2.2.8 - I am setting up network printers and would
> >>like to share them out through samba so that the end user (using 
> >>Windows 2000 and
> >>XP) can just double click on the printer share and it installs
> >>auto-magically.  Reading through the samba docs I was able to find info on
> >>the MSPRINT files, but that only works for Windows 9x -- What do I need
> >>    
> >>
> >for
> >  
> >
> >>2000/XP ?
> >>
> >>TIA,
> >>Mark
> >>
> >>--
> >>Mark Fowle
> >>    
> >>
> >mark at thefowles.com
> >  
> >
> 
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Mark Fowle
mark at thefowles.com

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