[ale] Samba tricks?

[Greg]

ok. just create a share called "printer_drivers" on the samba server, make
it readable by the world in the samba.conf file and put all of your drivers
on it.

When you crank up a Windows client and it asks for a driver, point it to
that share (You might have to create the share on the client first using the
old right click on My Computer --> map network drive).

On a windows print server, iirc, it will automagically download the correct
driver to the client if the client is configured correctly (it asks whether
you want to use/install a driver on the client or use one from the print
server.

Of course, I think my last windows install (2k Pro) had about every driver
under the sun included in the initial install so I didn't have to install
from the disk, but it was a while back so I could be in error.

When I set up my samba server as a print server all of the print drivers etc
were taken care of by the Linux pricing (cups, I think) set-up on the samba
server.  At this point you need to configure the samba.conf file to allow
the world to print.

Greg



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Robert L.
> Harris
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:27 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Samba tricks?
>
>
>
>
> I'm talking about having samba share out printer drivers for multiple
> clients.  So that when the Windows guy goes and installs a printer on
> a desktop, etc it pulls the correct driver from the samba server and the
> tech doesn't have to carry around 50 floppies of windows printer
> drivers.
>
> Thus spake Greg (runman at speedfactory.net):
>
> > Hello, Robert;
> >
> > 	I am not sure I understand.  My samba at home is a Windows
> NT PDC that
> > Windows 95,Windows 96, Windows NT 4.0 & Windows 2000 Pro see
> and understand.
> > In printing you can have the Windows client use a common driver
> on a box,
> > but SAMBA does not "push" content as afaik.  There is no need
> for drivers
> > for SAMBA use, either - just a TCP/IP connection.  The
> samba.conf file tells
> > SAMBA how to use the file structure - who and what can access
> stuff and in
> > what manner.  You do your file structure however you want (i.e. /MP3s,
> > /Wife_share, etc ...)  or you can have a directory called
> Win_drivers and
> > put your drivers there.  Make it accessible to all and then
> everyone can get
> > drivers from that directory.  Is this what you are talking about ?
> >
> > hope this helps
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf
> Of Robert L.
> > > Harris
> > > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:22 PM
> > > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > > Subject: [ale] Samba tricks?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been asked to help the Windows admin set up samba to push out
> > > drivers for different versions of windows.  Currently its set
> up to only
> > > share out for windows98 but supposedly there is a method to share out
> > > for multiple OS versions by changing the directory structure.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any information on this structure, etc?  I'm poking around
> > > samba.org but it's pretty obscure if it's there.
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
> > > :wq!
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