[cups.general] Re: Printer Configuration does not get updated on Windows Clients

[Guenther Frick]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Joerg Messbacher wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>I'm using CUPS (cups-1.1.19-10mdk) and SAMBA (3.0.0) on a Linux Server running Mandrake 9.2. The Clients run Windows 2K/XP.
>>
>>If I update the printer configuration on the server, only clients on which the driver was not installed before get the new settings, the other clients still use the old setting - how can I change this?
>>
>>I've installed the Windows driver on the server via Windows' Add Printer Wizard. Even if I un-install the driver (in the printers view: Server properties - Drivers - remove [translated from German Windows)) it doesn't help. Installing the same printer as a new printer under CUPS doesn't help as well.
>>
> 
> 
> AFAIK, the only workaround is to install login scripts on your
> W2K and WXP boxes that, when run, re-install the printer instances.
> 
> There is an excellent howto on all this stuff at linuxprinting.org.
> 
> Helge
> 
> 
If I'm not wrong this is the right link:
http://linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-11th-draft.html#11_1