I have Samba-3.0.1 sharing 2 printers via the 'share all printers' feature - the printers are an HP 4500 colour laser, and a Ricoh Aficio AP3200 ( accepting jobs like a network HP does ).
I followed the instructions on the CUPS website for sharing printers with the CUPS windows driver, using their 'cupsaddsmb' script, which basically takes your existing ppd file, and adds a couple of dlls ( the cups driver bit ) and chucks them in the printer$ share for Windows clients to download when they connect.
This all appeared to work flawlessly. I can right-click in the shared printers in the network neighbourhood and click 'connect' and the printer driver is downloaded.
The first issue ( which is probably more of a CUPS issue than a Samba issue ) is that the margins are wrong. The margins are perfect via Linux. Margin settings are taken from the foomatic-generated ppd file, and I've checked them against the manufacturer-issued ones. I've also checked the Windows clients, and they are in fact using the same ppd file that gets downloaded upon connecting. So something is going wrong somewhere, and the left-hand margin is too big on both printers, and the top margin is too big on the HP 4500. If anyone know the the problem is, I'd be oh-so-grateful to hear from you :)
The next issue is that I can't update the printer config now that it's set up. If I log into a Windows machine as root, samba will let me upload new drivers ( manufactured-issed ones to replace the CUPS Windows drivers ) to the printer$ share via the 'advanced' tab of the printer config dialog, when I click on 'apply' to select the uploaded driver, I get an error:
'Printer settings could not be saved. Access is denied'.
The drivers are being uploaded to the printer$ share, and I can select them for use in a single print 'session' and everything works OK, but I can't make them the default drivers!
One strange thing is that while I'm continually pressing on the 'apply' button, there is no logging being generated in /var/log/samba. So this looks like a permissions problem on the Windows client??? At any rate, it is preventing me from sharing the printers via samba, so if anyone knows what this issue is caused by, I'd also be very grateful to hear from you.
Thanks!
Dan
smb.conf:
#
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
dns proxy = no
load printers = yes
netbios name = screamer
printing = cups
server string = Samba Server %v
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
password server = NUS_AUST_NT
workgroup = NUSAUS
debug level = 1
bind interfaces only = true
interfaces = 10.146.0.254/255.255.0.0
null passwords = yes
encrypt passwords = yes
security = domain
preferred master = no
max log size = 50
use client driver = yes
[install] writable = yes printable = no path = /mnt/stuff/smb_shares/install force directory mode = 777 force group = nobody force create mode = 777 comment = Installation Stuff create mode = 777 public = yes directory mode = 777
[htdocs] path = /var/www/localhost/htdocs writable = yes printable = no public = yes
[printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no public = yes guest ok = yes writeable = no printable = yes printer admin = root
[print$] browseable = yes comment = Printer Drivers writeable = yes write list = root path = /etc/samba/drivers
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