[CentOS] Re: SMB server with CentOS 4

[Bryan J. Smith]

> 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.

No, this is completely _wrong_ -- even for native NT/2K[3]
servers -- _unless_ the vendor provides such management in
their drivers.  And then you can get into some really messy
setups with multiple vendors *COUGH*Lexmark*COUGH*.

All you can do is "share" the printer files from a native
Windows print server, which are from the vendor.  It's up to
the vendor to offer default settings at the server, which the
client inherits.  I think you're spoiled with vendor logic,
which is fine as long as you're only using 1 vendor's
printers on a print 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.

It doesn't matter what server is, you can have "raw" queues
on Windows too.  If you have "raw" queues, the server doesn't
understand what the client's sending to it.

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

I disagree entirely.  Maybe that's because you're using the
crappy Microsoft Postscript driver.  ;->

I always use the CUPS driver and, if its not compatible with
the Windows version, the Adobe PS driver.  _Never_ that
horrendous generic Postscript driver that Microsoft offers.



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