[cups.general] cupsaasmb copies only to ../WIN40/..

[Michael Sweet]

Peter Kobe wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote: 
> 
>>Peter Kobe wrote: 
>>
>>>Hallo to the list, 
>>> 
>>>We are modernising our print in or house. 
>>>Therefore I have to cupsaddsmb all the new printers. 
>>>It fails - at least on the WIN*-Clients side. 
>>>What I see is no copy to the W32X86 -side. 
>>>The environment: 
>>>Samba 2.2.8 
>>>Cups 1.1.22rc2 
>>
>> 
>>man cupsaddsmb 
>> 
>>You need to copy the Win2k drivers to the drivers directory. 
>> 
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> 
> Thanks Michael for telling me to read the man file. I hadn't done it for a 
> while. And so missed the changes. 
> It helped a lot.  Exept for some old WINDOWS98 boxes. They compain abount 
> not finding the \\SambaServer\PRINT$\WIN40\0\printer.PPD , which is there 
> Any ideas ? Have I anything forgotten to read ? 

Check to see that your printer name is not longer than 8 characters;
older Win9x boxes can't handle driver filenames longer than 8 chars.

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