[CentOS] Re: SMB server with CentOS 4

Wed Dec 7 21:38:22 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net>

Josh Kelley <joshkel at gmail.com> 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.

Ahhh, no.  It's far more manual to do this, and any changes
would have to be manually re-installed on each Windows
client.

> 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.

Not the same at all.  Using the Adobe Postscript driver, at
the most, you could make it as easy as updating the PPD.  But
it still won't be as automated.



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