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

Gerald Britton gerald.britton at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 07:06:32 PDT 2007


Ah -- that's what I was trying to avoid.  You've answered my question,
though.  Cups by itself cannot supply the drivers.  I either need
Samba or another way to install the drivers locally.

On 9/25/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>--
> >>Helge Blischke
> >>Softwareentwicklung
> >>
> >>H.Blischke at acm.org
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>cups mailing list
> >>cups at easysw.com
> >>http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/cups
> >>
> >
> >
>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blischke at acm.org
> _______________________________________________
> cups mailing list
> cups at easysw.com
> http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/cups
>





More information about the cups mailing list