[cups.general] CUPS driver for 64 bits Windows ?

[Michael Sweet]

[I will preface this with a warning: all of the CUPS windows driver stuff is unmaintained and unsupported at this point. And given Microsoft's direction in Windows 8 none of the drivers will continue to work beyond Windows 7...]


On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:48 PM, alet at librelogiciel.com wrote:
> ...
> * Could anyone who has done the compilation work make the 64 bits CUPS
>  driver for Windows available somewhere ? (If it's already available I
>  didn't find it)

64-bit binaries are in the subversion repository (http://svn.easysw.com/public/windows/trunk), but we haven't released them because of the current MS DDK license.

> * Provided I can put my hands onto this beast, what is the correct way
>  to put this onto our Samba server while not having to re-launch
>  cupsaddsmb for all printers ?

You need to register the drivers using rpcclient; the simplest way to do this is with cupsaddsmb...

> The problem we've got is related to
>  Samba/Windows setting the default page site to Letter, while we use
>  A4,
> ...

This is because Windows does not honor the default settings in the PPD, so even if the PPD says to use A4 it will use the local default media size for each queue.  I don't know of a way to force Windows to use A4 by default... :(

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair