[cups.general] Automatic driver downloads to Windows clients?

[Ryan Suarez]

Hi Thomas,

Automatic Driver Downloads are supported by samba 3.x series.  We are 
using cups/samba to serve point'n'print to XP clients.

regards,
Ryan

Thomas Boutell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> There are hints in Microsoft's web pages that a Microsoft Windows XP
> client talking to a Microsoft Windows server that offers
> "Windows Internet Printing" (Microsoft's implementation of IPP)
> can download Windows drivers automatically. And of course I know from
> experience that one can connect Windows XP to a CUPS-based IPP server
> and print successfully. But I don't see any mention that CUPS supports 
> delivering Windows drivers automatically in the way Windows expects 
> (i.e. presumably not CUPS-get-ppd).
>
> So just to be clear, it doesn't... right? And this is still a reason 
> to choose Samba+CUPS=SMB instead of IPP, then, assuming of course that 
> one can actually get the dratted driver download share stuff to work?
>
> * * *
>
> Off topic, but if anyone out there has succeeded with
> that Samba [print$] share stuff, I'd love to talk to you. In my case
> driver uploads work perfectly but downloads just don't even try to 
> happen!
>
> * * *
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- 
> Thomas Boutell
> Boutell.Com, Inc. http://www.boutell.com/
>
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