[cups.general] setting up windows 2000 printers using ipp to a cupsserver -- driver question

[Helge Blischke]

Gerald Britton wrote:
> Hi -- I am trying to set up cups to make it easy for windows users to
> add cups printers.  I'm ok  so far except for one last piece: having
> windows find the driver.  When adding a new printer (windows 2000), I:
> 
> 1. add a new network printer
> 2. put in the address http://cups:631/printers/myprinter
> 3. hit enter
> 
> at this point, windows says "Can't find driver" (well it's more
> verbose, but that's the meaning).  I previously downloaded the cups
> windows driver to a temp directory on the windows box, so I can browse
> to that location and load up the driver.
> 
> However,  what I want to do is have windows find the driver
> automatically at step 3.  Can this be done?  Where do I put the files
> (and which ones) to make this happen?
> 
> NOTE:  I am not running Samba.  This is to be a pure cups server.
> 

Probably you need an .inf file which tells Windows where to look
for the required files (DLLs, PPDs and dependent stuff).

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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