[CentOS] Re: SMB server with CentOS 4 -- 4 ways to setup print queues ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
> Er...those drivers are installed on the Windows client, not
> the samba server. Bryan's case is rather special. He is not
> talking about a raw queue but a postscript queue. Since it
is
> postscript, all the Windows clients just need to install a
> postscript print driver (which of course will be downloaded
> from the Samba server) and then they are done. The printer
> settings will have been setup on the Samba server via CUPS
> as he said.

There are basically 4 ways you can setup Windows printer
queues:

1.  All Manual:
Each one "raw" and go around manually installing drivers --
either SMB or an IPP/LPD/JetDirect port

2.  Manual and Driver Share:
Each one "raw" and setup Samba shares with the printer
drivers (with associated settings in smb.conf)

3.  CUPS, Postscript and Driver Share:  
Use CUPS so they are Postscript queues, use the Adobe
Postscript driver, and setup Samba shares with the PPDs (with
the associated settings in smb.conf)

4.  CUPS-Samba, CUPS driver for Windows and Automated PPD
Use CUPS so they are Postscript queues, use the CUPS drivers
for Windows and use the CPUS-Samba script, which handles
automatically publishing any CUPS changes into a fixed
location the CUPS driver for Windows knows where to get PPD
files for the printers without any manual intervention

#1 gives you manual fits

#2 and #3 has you setup a Samba share with printer info.  #3
minimizes the printer setup by letting you merely plop out
PPD files into the share.  In either case, you _still_ have
to edit smb.conf with the exact printer info, or use a
separate GUI tool.

#4 takes #3 and puts it on steroids.  Instead of using the
non-CUPS aware Adobe Postscript driver, which still requires
some manual intervention on the client side (like #2), you
use the CUPS driver for Windows.  Now you manage _everything_
from the CUPS interface, and run *1* command to update the
PPDs to the share.  The CUPS driver for Windows handles
getting everything from the server, including updated PPDs.


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