i've set up some printers in my samba domain (2.2.6pre2) and successfully uploaded drivers from a w2k workstation, according to the how-to, both for win2000 and win98. I used AppleLW Color 12/600 PS drivers, because i need _color_ postscript support. the problem is: win2000 gets the correct drivers, enabling the color printing. win98 instead gets the drivers, but they are not color enabled i can only print b/w, no color-tab in the printer settings). I've also tried with several other ps color drivers, but none of them worked. Another interesting point is that if i install the drivers locally on the win98 boxes, they present all the color-management related properties and they actually print with correct colors. all of these properties are not present in the samba-automagically-installed version (_same_ drivers).. i think that the automagic drivers don't get the .ppd installed correctly, even if it is placed in c:\windows\system, and that win falls back to the default (bad) ps driver properties.. i think so because reading the .ppd, it contains all the driver switches that appears in the local version but not in the remote..
sorry for my english, i hope i won't have to manually configure my printers in all the (many :/ ) win98 boxes, and no, to install a _real_ OS on the clients is unfortunately not an option:( thanks, Francesco