[Samba] CUPS postscript driver - setting up **ERRATA** Chris Aitken chris at ion-dreams.com Thu Jan 29 12:14:02 GMT 2004
Hi All,
Following instructions from here: http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/CUPS-printing.html#id2942237
and also in the "Official Samba Howto" book, I tried to install the CUPS PS driver using cupsaddsmb.
It failed due to various reasons, and then I finally got it to work.
When I unpacked the latest tar.gz file (cups-samba-5.0rc3.tar.gz) it doesn't unpack the files as:
cupsdrvr.dll cupsui.dll cups.hlp
but as
cupsdrv5.dll (5 instead of r) cupsui5.dll (extra 5) cups5.hlp (extra 5).
That version 5 of the CUPS PostScript Driver is not (yet) meant to be used with cupsaddsmb. (Unfortunately its docu doesn't make that really clear).
It is meant to be used by the "CUPS IPP Client for Win NT/2K/XP" (which allows driver and printer installation on the clients without and independently of Samba. Also, it is a "version 3" driver (non-Kernel mode), IIRC (but I might err).
This causes the cupsaddsmb to fail.
If the files are renamed, then it works OK.
This is the first workaround. The other one is to use the "smbclient...", "rpcclient...adddriver" and "rpcclient....setdriver" series of commands to upload and register the driver files into [print$] of Samba.
Regards,
Chris Aitken
Kurt
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