Cups drivers for Windows x64

franz.pfoertsch.brose franz.pfoertsch at brose.com
Sun Aug 7 09:09:59 PDT 2011


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> > I upgraded to Samba 3.5.9 and seemed to have a little better luck.  Now the driver downloads but fails to connect with error c1.  Here is my smb.conf:
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> Hello Kent,
>
> you are fighting againgst Windows7/x64, let us start at the beginning.
>
> a) It seem you are working with a working samba configuration.
> b) do not use any driver from foomatic or something else.
>    You are use a postscript printer with the generic postscript driver
>    (So will not have any influence by any obscure script/environment
> c) do not use the cups x64 drivers, they are not tested with windows7
>    grab only the drivers from the windows7/x64 installation (have a look at the
>    cupsaddsmb man-page or http://www.cups.org/doc-1.5/man-cupsaddsmb.html#CUPS_POSTSCRIPT_DRIVERS_FOR_WINDOWS
>
> this should work!
>
> good luck!
> Franz

PS: when this is working go step by step forward, change the ppd.
    In my opinion don't use foomatic, because nobody told my, that foomatic
    works flawless with windows ?!





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