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

[Helge Blischke]

Gerald Britton wrote:
> Yes, I do need an inf file as well as dlls, ppds, etc.  I have
> collected all of these, but am looking for help on where to put them
> on the cups server so that, when the windows user adds the cups
> printer, the driver is found by windows and automatically installed on
> the users' machine.
> 
> Where do I put this stuff on the cups server to make this magic happen?
> 
> On 9/25/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> 
>>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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>>
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> 
> 

Well, you said you do not use samba. Then you'd have to put all this
stuff into a directory on the Windows box itself (or put it onto an
USB stick and import it from there). You need to follow the
approach as if getting the stuff from a CD or floppy.

Helge


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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org