I have tried everything I could possibly think of to get printer driver download working with Samba 2.2.3a-6 and CUPS 1.1.15-4 (latest Debian unstable packages). I am wondering if anyone else has go this to work at all (with newer versions of samba or cups?) -- if so please let me know to give me some hope. Or else I am thinking this is officially 'broken'.
CUPS is working perfectly with the printers installed, even Win98 clients can print using the shared network HP8100N printer via Samba with their own locally installed printer drivers (from manufacture disks). I would simply like to automated the printer driver selection and installation for the Win98 clients. (right click on printer -> install should "just work"). What else do I need to do? Can I just place some actual drivers files in the [print$] share manually?? Thanks in advance! ... I've setup the [print$] share: http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN798 and am trying to setup CUPS for driver download: http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1050 // These printers work fine, from UNIX and Win98 clients [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/samba# lpstat -v device for HP8100N: socket://192.168.2.27:9100/ device for HP8100Nps: socket://192.168.2.27:9100/ // PPD files used for CUPS Printers, both work [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cups/ppd# ls -l total 248 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122039 Apr 6 14:19 HP8100N.ppd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122039 Apr 6 14:23 HP8100Nps.ppd // ADOBE Postscript drivers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/cups/drivers# ls -l total 2232 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 575573 Mar 30 12:38 ADFONTS.MFM -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1295840 Mar 30 12:38 ADOBEPS4.DRV -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 196460 Mar 30 12:38 ADOBEPS4.HLP -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13492 Mar 30 12:39 DEFPRTR2.PPD -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 118128 Mar 30 12:38 ICONLIB.DLL -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 57344 Mar 30 12:39 PSMON.DLL /* ADOBEPS5.DLL, ADOBEPSU.DLL, ADOBEPSU.HLP were not found on the /* adobe.com website for either their Universal 1.0.6 drivers /* (winsteng.exe) or their Postscript 4.2.6 drivers for Win9x /* (aps426eng.exe). These files where copied over from a Windows 98 /* machine, are the missing files necessary for CUPS driver download?? // Running the cupsaddsmb program to copy the CUPS printer drivers // to the samba [print$] share -- unsuccessfully. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cupsaddsmb -U root -a Warning: No PPD file for printer "HP8100N"! /* Why is it giving this error? The proper PPD files are in /* /etc/cups/ppd/ as shown above and placed there by the CUPS /* web-based install and command line "lpadmin -p HP8100N -v \ /* socket://192.168.2.27:9100 -E -P /usr/share/cups/model/HP8100N.PPD" /* printer install process. // PPD files of course not added to the [print$] share [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/samba/drivers# ls -lR .: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 15:37 W32X86 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 15:37 WIN40 ./W32X86: total 0 ./WIN40: total 0 ------------------------ relevant pieces of smb.conf file ------------- [global] workgroup = linuxtest netbios name = WS-072 ## lines here snipped for brevity load printers = yes printing = cups printcap name = cups [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = yes path = /var/spool/samba printable = yes public = no writable = no create mode = 0700 printer admin = root [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers browseable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes write list = root,usertest -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
