On Thu, 18 May 2000, Jonas Thorell wrote:
> Chris Holt wrote:
>
> > Yes. I haven't tried it though so I don't know how well it works.
> > I would do it the other way around though. The Printerdrivers
> > for the PC is as a rule of thumb better.
>
> >If the PC had direct access, you would be using the Windows printer
> >drivers, would you not?
>
> Hm, I'm not sure. They work together in some ways. I'm not exactly
> sure how Samba handles printing but my guess would be that the
> printerdriver installed on the server is by no means insignificiant.
The printer drivers aren't used directly by Samba at all. That feature is
just to make it easier to get drivers installed on PCs, by downloading
them from the server. If you only have one or two PCs it's probably more
trouble than it's worth. In a large corporate LAN, allowing users to get
drivers over the LAN isntead of giving them all disks is a big help.
There's no way to set it up without first installing the driver the
"normal" way on one PC, then going through some upload shenanigans to
"publish" it.
Fred Wright
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