[ale] Samba tricks?

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>I do that at home.  I just drop the drivers in a directory on the share:
>>
>>/share/win-drivers
>>/share/win-drivers/hp-printer
>>/share/win-drivers/epson
>>
>>When I go to install the driver, I just select that folder.
> 
> 
> No, there is a way to setup samba so that printer drivers are
> automagically downloaded by clients,

I didn't say that.  Although you snipped his part of the posting, he 
said he just wanted to save the techs from running around with a bunch 
of floppies.  I can easily tell windows to browse for the driver and it 
will browse to the shares I've noted above.

Neither Robert nor I said anything about automagically downloading drivers.


but I think you must be using CUPS
> for printing.  See:
> http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/cups.html
> 
> 
>>Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> [snip!]

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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