I'm getting really
frustrated again...please help.
Would someone please
answer these questions and maybe I can figure out what is wrong with my
installation:
1. I can add
printers in CUPS, and they show up in Samba (after a 'service smb restart'). I
can see them when I surf to \\waifer (the name of
the Samba server), but when I double-click on them there, it can't find the
drivers on the server (print$ path = /etc/samba/drivers/). Is this the location
you have for your Windows client drivers in a working Samba/CUPS installation?
If so, what does that directory contain? Can I copy the drivers from someone's
working installation to the correct place on my system?
2. When I run
'cupsaddsmb -a' or 'cupsaddsmb -a -U root' it asks me for the root password over
and over and over again, apparently doing nothing. Ctrl-C (or any other rational
combination of keys) won't exit it, and it appears to make no changes to
/etc/samba/drivers/. As I understand it, cupsaddsmb should copy drivers from
CUPS to Samba, creating drivers that will work for Windows clients who add those
printers to their workstations. Am I correct? What form will those drivers take,
and where will the converted drivers be located? Any idea why I am asked for the
root password over and over?
3. There is a lot of
talk about the "Add Printer" icon in (for example) \\waifer\Printers ...when I
double-click this it appears to add the driver to my local Windows machine. When
I choose (under Win2k) Properties on that printer, hit the Advanced tab, update
the driver, it appears to update the driver to the Windows machine. This doesn't
appear to be what the documentation says it will do (being that it should upload
the drivers to the Samba share in print$. Is this correct?). How can I get the
drivers in place on the Samba server without going through
this?
4. The man pages for
cupsaddsmb talk about downloading the Adobe Postscript drivers from Adobe's
site. I went there, downloaded an executable file which said it was Adobe's
Postscript printer drivers. I installed it on my Win2k machine, hoping that
afterwards I could find those files somewhere and copy them to the Samba server
somewhere. Where should these be copied to? What are they really for (since the
idea as I understand it was that CUPS supplied working printer drivers and not
all of the printer I am setting up handle PS)?
5. After all this,
can anyone really, really say that they have a fully functional installation of
CUPS and Samba which allows Windows clients to retrieve drivers for the printer
they wish to install from the Samba server? I'm currently having my doubts and
thinking there is a misconception here about where the drivers are coming from,
where they are installed, and that this is in any way a simple
process.
Thanks! Once this is
done and working, I wish to make a donation to the Samba team, so I hope that is
an impetus for help on this. I will also be glad to help improve documentation
on this process once this is working.
Greg
Webster
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