[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2559: cupsaddsmb should work withjust cups printer driver
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Mon Oct 15 12:04:07 PDT 2007
Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
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>> [STR New]
>>
>> afaik, the cups printer driver should be all you need to export a printer
>> via samba and have it "work" ... currently cupsaddsmb will fail without
>> the microsoft or adobe driver available
>
> That's because the CUPS printer driver files are an addon, that must
> be used with either the Adobe or the MS base PS driver.
And to clarify, on Windows 2000 and higher the MS and Adobe PS drivers
are one and the same - Adobe wrote them, MS bundles them.
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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