1) printer is installed *fully* automatically - no end-user user interaction,
2) as admin can reach Samba and only Samba remotely (and only remotely), there can be no walking to a workstation and adding a printer from there.


To sum up:

a) admin knows what printer do they have in these remote offices,
b) admin copies drivers to samba remotely, changes some logon scripts - and users of that remote office have printer drivers installed.


I'm going to reiterate one more time that it doesn't appear that you're doing this properly, and then shoot myself.

You need to, as admin, *install* the printer on the samba server by the methods that have been listed in this thread several times. DO NOT simply copy the drivers to some random share on the server and then point the client to them. Here is my login script snippet that works fine on every workstation I've ever seen that has the printer drivers installed properly on the server. Some newish versions of samba require me to put the ip, hopefully that will be fixed. The first one sets the driver, the second sets the default printer.

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\10.2.0.2\hplj /r \\10.2.0.2\hplj /m "HP LaserJet 5000 Series PS "
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /z /n \\10.2.0.2\hplj


I quit.

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