[ale] Samba tricks?

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:29:30PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Neither Robert nor I said anything about automagically downloading drivers.
> 
> 
> Sorry, I misunderstood.  I just recently setup CUPS on one of my boxes
> at home, and while researching CUPS and samba I saw a howto for the
> automagic driver download to clients.  Both Robert's original message
> and his followup led me to believe that was what he was looking for.

No apologies necessary.  The good thing about the on going discussion is 
that I (and possibly Robert) learned that you could use a Samba share in 
such a way.  I certainly was not aware of that possibility.

> 
> Jason
> 
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:27:13PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
>>
>>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.
> 
> 

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

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Think about it...

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