[cups.general] cupsaddsmb and printer model

[Michael R Sweet]

Niconux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I use cupsaddsmb to add a printer driver automatically in SAMBA, I can see in windows explorer that the column "printer model" automatically takes the name of the printer share (netbios name in fact).
> 
> This "feature" disturb my users, because for instance, all our printers here are named with a specific coding format, including floor level, wall, intersection number and so on... we would like to have a way to redefine printer model name to keep them like "HP LaserJet 9050 Series" for example.
> 
> Is there an option allowing to do this in cupsaddsmb ? I've also opened a ticket to the SAMBA team because apparently, on their side, this is the same: there is no possibility to change the way a driver is named with rpcclient command.

There is currently no option for this, but there is a feature request
tracking this on the CUPS side:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php?U2928

As you say, there is currently no way to do this with Samba, so any
improvement to cupsaddsmb will depend on a newer version of Samba,
too...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer