[H-GEN] Samba and printers

[hphillips at 4ward.com.au]

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> > What I was wondering does anyone know which files the connecting box 
> > checks for the printer type and the drivers, where does the sharing box
> > keep the drivers that the connecting box copies over?
> > 
> > I would like to emulate this on the linux box (create the PRINTER$
> > share and copy the required files to it) so the plebs that want to
> > connect to the printer/s on the server are not asked what drivers they
> > want to use. They always stuff it up no matter how many written
> > instructions you leave them.
> 
> Read this....
> http://au1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#PRINTING

Thank you for that, printing that out as I type.

Since Mandrake 8.0 doesn't have an samba update to 2.2 it's as good as reason as any to install Mandrake 8.1 on my server before I make any changes to any of my client's servers.




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