Topic: Windows printer drivers

[jand689]

Is there a directory to drop Windows printer driver files so that when connecting to a shared printer on SME from an XP machine the printer drivers will be pulled from the server and installed automatically?

[cactus]

Is there a directory to drop Windows printer driver files so that when connecting to a shared printer on SME from an XP machine the printer drivers will be pulled from the server and installed automatically?

Maybe this will get you started:

Samba 3 HOWTO, Chapter 21: Classical Printing
Point and Print in Samba

[meofcourse]

Not to bring up an old problem again, but I just figured this one out my self, so I put together a quick how to on this.  I used the following URLs:

http://www.netadmintools.com/art258.html
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32450.0

and put two and two together which makes it rather easy.

1. Login to the SME server command-line and run the following commands:
# db configuration setprop smb UseClientDriver no
# expand-template /etc/samba/smb.conf
# service smb restart

2. Add the printer on the server-manager page
3. From a Windows client, (logged in as admin) click start run and type \\servername
4. Double click Printers and Faxes
5. Right Click on the printer you added in step 2
6. click Properties
7. Click the Advanced tab
8. Click New Driver
9. Follow the wizard to add the driver for the printer added in step 2
10. Click Apply

Repeat steps 2 through ten for every additional printer

Now all non admin users should be able to add that printer to there computer as a network printer.

[cactus]

Perhaps a nice thing to add to the Howto category in the wiki.

[mmccarn]

http://wiki.contribs.org/Printer_Drivers_for_Windows_Workstations