cupsaddsmb supports windows nt?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Mar 22 07:14:33 PST 2005


Christoph Litauer wrote:
> Using cups 1.1.21 under SuSE 9.2
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just installed a new printserver using cups 1.1.21 now. Reading the 
> manpage of cupsaddsmb I only found hints for installation of Windows 
> 9x/ME drivers and drivers for Windows 2000 and higher. Whats with 
> Windows NT? Will cupsaddsmb recognize any NT drivers files if I copy 
> them to /usr/share/cups/drivers?
> So far I used cups 1.1.20 where cupsaddsmb supported Windows NT using 
> the cups or adobe postscript drivers.

CUPS 1.1.21 and higher no longer supports exporting of the NT
PS driver.  This is because it is not possible to add both NT
and 2000 drivers via SAMBA - only one driver will be active at
any given time.

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