[CentOS] Re: SMB server with CentOS 4

[Josh Kelley]

On 12/7/05, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
> > With a Postscript print queue, you can configure printer defaults on
> > the server, using CUPS.  With a raw print queue, you can configure
> > printer defaults under an administrator account on a client, using the
> > Windows print driver, then it writes those defaults back to the server
> > for others to use.
> >
> > Raw print queues really don't have the shortcomings in functionality
> > that you seem to be saying they do.
>
> How exactly does a Windows generic postscript driver communicate with
> the cups system on printer settings through samba?
>
> Even the cups postscript driver for windows does not appear to offer that...

I'm confused.  I'm afraid that we may have misunderstood each other in
the last round or two of emails.  If I've misunderstood or
communicated poorly, I apologize.

Bryan said that with Postscript queues, you can configure printer
settings through CUPS.  With Postscript queues, you use a generic
Postscript driver for Windows (such as the one provided by CUPS - I
didn't mean to imply a distinction between a generic driver and the
CUPS driver), and the Postscript driver gets its printer settings from
the PPD that you configure through CUPS.

With raw queues, it's my understanding - please correct me if I'm
wrong - that the printer drivers run on the client and can store the
device mode and printer driver data on the server.  In this case, CUPS
has no knowledge of any of the settings, and Samba doesn't really
understand them either - it treats them as opaque data structures that
it provides to Windwos clients upon request.

At any rate, though, it works, and I've found it to be a simpler setup
than Postscript queues.  YMMV.

Josh Kelley