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. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)