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)