Re: [Samba] roaming profiles ok, but what about the printers?

2004-09-05 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 21:20, Andreas Paulick wrote: > I've got some inspirations from the archive of lists.samba.org and I'm > writing a little shell-wrapper around the print-command. > Because I have'nt access to the server right now I write this from memory: I've got a similar setup, using CUPS

[Samba] roaming profiles ok, but what about the printers?

2004-09-04 Thread Andreas Paulick
I've got some inspirations from the archive of lists.samba.org and I'm writing a little shell-wrapper around the print-command. Because I have'nt access to the server right now I write this from memory: smb.conf: snip [printers] Browseable = no #don't show the real printers [laser]

[Samba] roaming profiles ok, but what about the printers?

2004-09-04 Thread Andreas Paulick
I've got some inspirations from the archive of lists.samba.org and I'm writing a little shell-wrapper around the print-command. Because I have'nt access to the server right now I write this from memory: smb.conf: snip [printers] Browseable = no #don't show the real printers [laser]

Re: [Samba] roaming profiles ok, but what about the printers?

2004-08-31 Thread Andreas Paulick
Thanks for the response. Indeed Im not using AD, but there are logon.bat scripts for every machine to bind a network printer to LPT1 for a old plain DOS-Software. I'm also not a VB-expert, but I can see the way. I will keep this in mind, but I would prefer the linux-based solution because some

Re: [Samba] roaming profiles ok, but what about the printers?

2004-08-30 Thread Daniel Ramaley
Another way to do what you want is to create a logon script that sets the printer based on the name of the computer. I do that for a couple labs that i administer where students use roaming profiles. I have a logon.bat that is set by active directory group policy to run whenever someone logs in