César Amaya wrote:
Hi list, have you ever installed cups + samba for a print server? That
is what I am trying to do, the print server box set up is as the
following:
- FreeBSD 6.1 release
- cups-1.2
- samba 3
- hpijs-2.1.4
- foomatic-db-20061214
- cups-samba-5.0.r3
I have installed and tested the printer properly via web interface of
cups. The problem comes when I try to push the Windows printer drivers
with cups, I get a error message
# cupsaddsmb -H localhost -U root -h localhost -a -v
Password for root required to access localhost via SAMBA:
No Windows printer drivers are installed!
No Windows printer drivers are installed!
No Windows printer drivers are installed!
...
I have already download the respective drivers.
Any one knows how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!!!
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Firstly, I changed your subject to something a little more specific; you
really should read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/
for details on getting better results from this mail list. A vague or
generic subject such as your's frequently gets skipped and your chances
of solving your problem lessen.
That said, herein I contradict myself by trying to answer your initial
problem, but I have some experience with what you are apparently trying
to do and would like to help. Unfortunately, acting as a print server
for windows clients isn't always cut-and-dry.. The key with Samba+CUPS,
is to NOT use any filters or drivers on the CUPS end of things. This is
very important, as it will change your output if you're also using the
windows drivers. You must add your printers via CUPS as 'RAW' queues, no
driver.
The process is outlined very well in the Samba documentation, and that
too I would strongly recommend you do some more reading up on, but in
the interest of sparking the desire to do so, here's an outline of the
basic process required:
1 - Setup CUPS, add printers using RAW queues, Setup Samba, tell it to
use cups for printing
2 - Setup a shared location for printer drivers from Samba, the share
can be pretty much anywhere on your local FreeBSD filesystem, and can
use all the options of any other file-share, but must be shared from
Samba with the name 'print$'. Something similar to this inside your
smb.conf should suffice:
[print$]
comment = Windows Client Printer Drivers
path = /var/db/windows_printers
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
write list = root Administrator @"Domain Admins" @"Printer Admins"
3 - Login from a Windows client, to the Samba server using an
administrator login (as specified in the write list for print$). Goto
the 'Printers' section, NOT the direct queue mapping, for example:
\\samba1\Printers NOT \\samba1\some_printer. When in the printers
folder, right-click the printer you wish to add the drivers to, and you
can add them from the windows properties dialog like you would any
printer. This will upload the drivers to the samba [print$] share for
other clients to use.
4 - From another samba client running windows, goto
\\samba1\some_printer and it will prompt if you wish to 'Connect to
printer', simply say yes - and that client should use the windows
drivers directly from the samba [print$] share without further prompting.
There are some issues, and it's not just as simple as 4 easy steps...
but this is the general process to go through, with a little reading
from the Samba website/documentation you should be able to get it going.
Feel free to drop another message back to the list if you run into more
questions from there.
--
Nathan Vidican
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Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/
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