[cups.general] cupsaddsmb problem

[Jerome Alet]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:10:55PM -0500, william.Lott at uconn.edu wrote:
> I have been trying for over a month to setup the system to export 
> the drivers to Windows computers of my Samba shared printer.  We 
> have an HP 4100 that I have configured with REDHAT/KDE print 
> manager.  I have also obtained all the cups and adobe files 
> mentioned in the writeup on cupsaddsmb.  I have placed the files in 
> the directories mentioned. 
> 
> When I try to export the files to Samba with cupsaddsmb, I get the 
> error message of no ppd file for the printer.  I have associated a 
> ppd file with the printer and I have the ppd for the HP4100.  I 
> don't know if I have it in the wrong directory or what. 
> 
> I have also tried exporting the drivers with the built in option 
> in the redhad print manager.  It keeps saying some driver files are 
> missing. 

Does the /etc/cups/ppd/yourprintqueue.ppd file exist ?

If yes is this file readable by the user who launches cupsaddsmb ?
(I suppose you should do this as root anyway)

> I want to set up PyKota, but can't until I can serve the print 
> drivers to the Windows computers on the system. 

This is unrelated. PyKota will happily work even if your printer
doesn't have a PPD file, and whatever driver you'll use on the
client.

bye

Jerome Alet