CUPS windows driver

[Niconux]

Yes !
You were right. With those files it is OK. Thanks a lot.

But I found them only on an old win2000. Unable to find them on a win XP Pro.

Regards.

> Niconux wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I'm trying to install cups windows drivers with SAMBA. I don't find updated documentation in SAMBA, and I cannot successfully set CUPS+SAMBA to work to have this universal printing thing.
> >
> > I use samba 3.0.33 and cups 1.3.9 on linux RHEL 5 64 bits.
> >
> > In samba documentation, they are speaking about a package named cups-samba-1.1.19.tar.gz, which I cannot find on your download section. What I find on CUPS web site is another package named cups-windows-6.0-1.i386.rpm.
> >
> > I have installed this rpm.
> >
> > I've created a printer with lpadmin command. The printer is a XEROX one, with PPD provided on their web site. I used this PPD when I've installed this printer via the lpadmin command.
> >
> > My SAMBA is of course fully configured to allow printer download from client stations.
> >
> > What I don't understand at first is why I have the message "No Windows printer drivers are installed!" when I use cupsaddsmb, despite the fact that the cups-windows-6.0-1.i386.rpm has been installed. I have this in /usr/share/cups/drivers:
> > cups6.inf
> > cups6.ini
> > cupsps6.dll
> > cupsui6.dll
> >
> > I saw in cupsaddsmb man page that there are also some files comming from a driver folder on a windows station. Should i have them also ? Where to find them (because I tried to find them on a XP station where it was indicated in the man page, but they don't exist).
> >
> > Another question: I saw samba documentation speaking also about a cups.hlp file. It doesn't exist in the cups-windows-6.0-1.i386.rpm package.
> >
> > I also tried to install the driver via smbclient and net rpc -c 'adddriver...' command without success (and the cups.hlp file is maybe necessary for this command). Note that my samba server is a member of an active directory domain (not acting as AD PDC) only acting as print server for an organization composed of 3000 users and 300 printers!
> >
> > And so on...
> >
> > As you can see, that's a lot of problems and questions.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> I think you need in addition the files
> PS5UI.DLL
> PSCRIPT5.DLL
> PSCRIPT.HLP
> PSCRIPT.NTF
> from a native Windows installation (2000 and up, not Vista).
>
> Helge
>
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