When sharing a printer via samba you can upload windows' drivers to samba server. I spent many time to do this solution.
It's needed upload the driver and create a correct device mode. Upload driver for a samba server can be make either rpcclient(hard mode) or using Windows Wizard for add drivers(easy mode). Please before make any changes on server read from title -> "Creating the [print$] Share" to -> "Setting Default Print Options for Client Drivers" here: http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#id358044 2007/4/10, 1arrybarnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Problem: The basic catch-22 with this printer model is that the drivers aren't part of the standard XP distro. The XP printer installation wizard expects the drivers to be available from the print server. After searching the net, I came across this basic installation method: 1. Temporarily plug the printer into the XP PC and install the drivers from the Printer CD. Then plug the printer back into the linux server.
Nooo... please don't do this. worse workaround. :-)
At this point 2 techniques were suggested, neither of which worked for me: 2a. Go back to the wizard and install the remote printer, using the correct driver this time. This apparantly succeeds, but printint the test page fails with an uninformative popup inviting me to go to the troubleshooting wizard (which is equally unhelpful). or 2b. Hack the local printer configuration by going to properties-->ports and creating a Local port with the value \\<servername>\<printername>, as shared by Samba. This step fails for me with error 66 "The network resource type is not correct".
For me work.. but isn't necessary.
So that's it, I'm stuck. I would love to hear from anyone who has worked through this problem already. Failing that, how can I pick apart this problem to figure out what's failing? Note: There was also some discussion in the forums about the print$ share and loading drivers on the Linux box, but I never figured out if that was relevant to my use case (Linux server/Windows client). Many thanks in advance to those who reply. Cheers, Larry
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