Installing CUPS printer drivers on WinXP clients...

[Renato Salles]

Peter Saward wrote:
> In article <19461-cups.general at news.easysw.com>,
>  Helge Blischke <H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> This seems to be the stumbling point: I've got a user account on the
> XP machine which has the same username and password as the admin user on
> the samba server. The drivers download and install, but when I select 
> a printer from the server's Printers and Faxes folder, all the settings
> in properties are greyed out.  And since they've been installed on the 
> XP client, why are the properties settings greyed-out when accessed from
> the client's Printer and Faxes folder?
> 
> So how do I get the samba server to authenticate the XP user as the
> samba admin?  (OK, maybe this is a silly question, but I'm a MacOS/
> Unix person, not Windoze....)
The device URI must contain the username, password and group of the user 
in the name you'll try to set the properties for that printer (paper, 
size, etc.
smb://user:passwd@group/host/printer

Sds,



> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I've read these now umpteen times, and I still can't get it to go.
> If I disable the [print$] share and install the drivers manually on
> the XP client, everything works fine. And CUPS is working perfectly
> as far as unix/MacOSX/MacOS9 clients are concerned.
> 
> I suppose I could abandon the attempt to have the server install the 
> drivers, but I rather wanted to make things a bit easier for the
> Windows users (and myself).
> 
> Tearing my hair out in frustration....!
> 
> -P.
> 
> PS.
> This is my smb.conf...
>  # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = EDU
>         netbios name = PRINTSERVER4
>         server string = Samba Server
>         security = SHARE
>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>         log file = /var/log/samba.%m
>         max log size = 50
>         dns proxy = No
>         ldap ssl = no
>         hosts allow = all
>         hosts deny = none
>         load printers = yes
>         printing = cups
>         printcap name = cups
> 
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         read only = No
>         browseable = No
> 
> [tmp]
>         comment = Temporary file space
>         path = /tmp
>         read only = No
>         guest ok = Yes
> 
> [print$]
>         comment = printer drivers
>         path = /var/samba/drivers
>         browseable = yes
>         guest ok = yes
>         read only = no
>         write list = root
> 
> 
> [printers]
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         guest ok = Yes
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
>         writeable = no
>         public = yes
>         printer admin = root
>