cupsaddsmb supports windows nt?

[Franz Pförtsch]

Hello,

year ago (cups.1.16) I expanded cupsaddsmb to install both drivers the NT
(Kernelmode W32X86/2) and the W2k Usermode (W32X86/3) and sended the diff
to the mailing list.
But I lost my source file :-(((
The binary is build on SuSE Enterprise Server 8 Intel

To use this expanded cupsaddsmb at /usr/share/cups/drivers the following
files are needed:

ADFONTS.MFM
PSCRIPT.HLP
PS5UI.DLL
ICONLIB.DLL
DEFPRTR2.PPD
ADOBESU.HLP
ADOBEPSU.HLP
ADOBEPSU.DLL
ADOBEPS5.DLL
ADOBEPS4.HLP
ADOBEPS4.DRV
PSMON.DLL
PSCRIPT5.DLL
PSCRIPT.NTF

the commandline to install the drivers is the same as the original.
I use this script with all my servers (aprox. 10).

regards
Franz

Michael Sweet wrote:

> Christoph Litauer wrote:
>> ...
>> thanks for your response. I don't agree with your statement. I can use
>> the Adobe Postscript driver for NT, 2000 and XP without problems. But
> 
> Actually, the Adobe driver which works with NT is also a kernel mode
> driver, which is what we are moving away from.  The current Adobe
> driver for Windows 2000 and higher is, in fact, the one that comes
> with Windows, and that is the one we support.  You can still use the
> cupsaddsmb program from 1.1.20 and earlier to export the Adobe NT
> drivers, but you can't export both the NT and 2000 drivers on the
> same Samba server.
> 
>> cupsaddsmb doesn't support installing the adobe drivers any more. So I
>> have to write my own cupsaddsmb script - its not difficult at all, but I
>> would prefer an option to cupsaddsmb that lets the user decide which
>> drivers should be installed.
> 
> Given that the old drivers are buggy, generally unsafe to use on
> newer systems, and you can't export both NT and 2000 drivers on the
> same server (only an NT driver which happens to work on later
> versions of Windows), we have no plans or desire to implement such
> a feature.
> 
> You can probably combine the 1.1.20 and 1.1.21 versions of cupsaddsmb
> to get "the best of both worlds" for your configuration.
> 
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