[cups.general] cupsaddsmb with nt4.0

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Jan 26 08:30:36 PST 2006


Andreas Fladischer wrote:
> 
> hi at all!
> 
> i have a problem using cupsaddsmb and a nt 4.0 client!i configured one
> printer, first at a normal pcl printer and then a second queue this
> printer as a postscript printer!i would like the automatic driver
> installation of the drivers on windows machines!i downloaded the
> cups-samba-1.1.16.tar.gz installed the drivers and put the driver to the
> /usr/share/cups/drivers directory. after a cupsaddsmb pcl_printer the
> automatic printer download works on xp and 2000 machines but not on
> NT4.0. The same story with the postscript printer: i tried really every
> possible postscript driver (adobe) but it doesn't work with NT.
> 
> i'm using cups 1.1.22 with samba 3.0.20b.
> 
> i hope someone can help me.
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> andreas

With NT4, you need to use the "old" kernel mode drivers cupsdrvr.dll, cupsui.dll, and cups.hlp
and the old cupsaddsmb from 1.1.18 (I think) or older.

They should still be available at ftp.easysw.com. If you don't succeed in getting them, drop me an e-mail.

Helge

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