[cups.general] driver files

[solarflow99]

On 5/15/08, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On 5/15/08, Pippo Lacoca <futhwo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I have a working cups printer, and i'm trying to setup Point'N Print,
>> i've
>> > read through as much documentation as possible, but there's a few things
>> I
>> > don't understand:
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>> > - I guess cupsaddsmb can now do most of the work to add the drivers to
>> the
>> > print$ share, which is excellent.  Its just the step prior to that which
>> > seems less clear.
>> >
>> > - What is the cups-samba.tar.gz file actually for?  I see far too few
>> files
>> > for it to be windows printer drivers for all popular printers.  Could
>> this
>> > be just the mechanism cups has to with with samba for printing?
>> >
>> > - Just like cups comes with PPD files for many different printers, with
>> the
>> > recommendation to use a vendor supplied PPD instead, if you have
>> one.  Where
>> > should someone get the windows printer drivers from, for use with cups.
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>> >
>> >  I have cups 1.2.4, on RHEL5.1 (cups-1.2.4-11.14.el5),  no need to
>> support
>> > older win clients, no other special requirements, just to get print
>> working
>> > the easiest way.  The samba shares are already setup, but I can't
>> actually
>> > add a driver FROM the client, the "new driver" button is dimmed, so
>> using
>> > this method is out.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks very much for any help,
>> >
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>> Hi
>> The files in the cups-samba package will be "united" (by cupsaddsmb) to
>> the printer PPD in the ppd directory of cups to produce the windows driver.
>> So as long as you define a priter in cups with his right ppd, using
>> cupsaddsmb will produce a sort of printer specific driver for the windows
>> client to download.
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> I see.  Your simple paragraph just explained what all the docs could not:)
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> I've got cups-windows-6.0-source.tar.gz, but when I do a make it doesn't
> find the cups-config command.  It seems that command is not included in the
> RPM, so the build fails.  Also, is there a way to reverse what cupsaddsmb
> does, to delete the printer?  say in case I make a change and want to add it
> again?
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 ok, looks like it was actually in the cups-devel package after all.  I'm
still curious what the correct way is to "delete" a printer after having
added it with cupsaddsmb.


Thanks,



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