cupsaddsmb supports windows nt?

[Michael Sweet]

Christoph Litauer wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> Very informational, thank you Michael. Especially the difference between 
> kernel and user mode drivers -- I've never heard of.
> 
> Well, so it would be wise to use the 2000 drivers and tell my NT users 
> they should upgrade. But there is another issue -- perhaps you can help 
> once more?
> The adobe drivers as well as the "old" cups windows drivers (cups.dll 
> etc.) supported a "Number up"-option -- independent from any definitions 
> in the printers ppd file. I can't find this option using the new 2k 
> drivers except for printers that define a HPNup feature in its ppd file.
> Some ppd's define a HPNup feature, some do not. My students often want 
> to use nup printing on all kinds of printers.
> So whats up with the "old" cups drivers: Should I use them? Is there 
> another way (except for copying the HPNup section in every ppd file) to
> offer nup printing?

IIRC, the Win2k drivers already provide a number-up option; if not,
we can just export the CUPS number-up option as a PPD option like
we do for the job-hold-until and other options.

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