Installing CUPS printer drivers on WinXP clients...

[Helge Blischke]

Peter Saward wrote:
> 
> I have a Linux/CUPS/Netatalk/Samba system set up as a print server.
> This all works fine - the queues queue, the printers print...
> the cups printer drivers even install on XP clients from the
> samba print$ share.  The only problem is that the properties
> of the installed drivers can't be changed - every option is
> greyed out, so that printer settings (e.g. paper size) can't be
> adjusted.
> 
> Can anyone, please, point me towards a fix for this???
> 
> -P.

You must do the properties modification as administrator (or a user
having
administrator rights).

The best thing to set the defaults is to connect to the samba server as
a
user which has administrative rights on the samba server and set the
defaults
there, before installing this stuff on the client machines.

I urgently recommend to read the chapters 18 (classical printing
support) and
19 (CUPS printing support) of the official samba howto and follow the
recommendations given there.

Helge

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