Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:59, Feizhou wrote:
No, I meant on a Windows client. You can use a Windows client to install Windows drivers to a Samba print server that's operating in raw mode. Then you can configure the printer driver from the Windows client, and I'm pretty sure that saves the default settings on the Samba server. Then you can point-and-print from Windows (no manual driver installation needed), just as you could if you were using full (non-raw) Samba-CUPS integration.
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.
I haven't done this but was under the impression that samba could associate any windows print driver (not just postscript) with a shared printer and it would auto-install the driver on the windows client when the printer was set up there.
Yes but not auto configure the printer settings on the Windows client. I have done this before.
Bryan's case of a postscript printer or a printer with a postscript driver on the Samba box means that the printer settings can be set once and for all. (Probably not what you want for a colour printer)