CUPS Windows Postscript Drivers

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Thu Sep 29 01:26:57 PDT 2005


> Yes, the CUPS drivers still depend on the Microsoft PS drivers, as
> covered in the man page...

Do the Microsoft drivers need to be installed along with the CUPS drivers when using cupsaddsmb?

Or can we just install the CUPS drivers, and know that when they get to the Windows machine, the Windows drivers will already be there?

Thanks for your help.


> stefan.hildenbrand at uni.bayreuth.de wrote:
> > I tried to install the new drivers via cupsaddsmb (the one from the trunk) but at first it did not work. This is because (at least I think that's the reason):
>
> That does appear to be a bug - fixed in trunk now...
>
> >  'cupsaddsmb' looks for a file named 'cupsdrv6.dll' which is not
> >   present in the svn repository. That's why 'cupsaddsmb' fails.
> >   Therefore I linked cupsdrv6.dll -> cupsps6.dll
> >
> >  This worked for installing the drivers in /etc/samba/drivers, however,
> >  printing a test page did not work. This is because cups6.inf/.ini refer
> >  to the file 'cupsps6.dll' which is not present in /etc/samba/drivers
> >  (cupsaddsmb does not copy it).
>
> That should be fixed up now...
>
> >  After adding cupsps6.dll to /etc/samba/drivers it worked.
> >
> > Besides, cupsaddsmb also looks for the 'ps'-files and fails if they are not present in /usr/share/cups/drivers
>
> Yes, the CUPS drivers still depend on the Microsoft PS drivers, as
> covered in the man page...
>
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