[cups] CUPS + SAMBA, cups windows print drivers missing

[Alex Korobkin]

The files:

http://eriegel.de/cups/cups-PS-Driver_x64.zip
http://eriegel.de/cups/cups-PS-Driver_x86.zip

This setup may be deprecated, but thousands of my users use it every day.
Apart from Cloud Print, I don't have any better solution for them to
install a printer in a single click. Cloud Print doesn't cover some of the
printers yet, unfortunately, especially plotters and label makers.


On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Jan Hubený <hubeny at soma.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we used cups print server together with samba. We used the cups windows
> postscript drivers in the way described for example here:
>
>
> http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2011/10/cups-samba-64bit-driver-installation.html
>
> On our old CentOS 6 server this setup worked very well.
>
>
> Now we upgrade the server to the CentOS 7. Cups version is 1.6.3 and Samba
> version is 4.1.12.  I try to found the cups postscript drivers for windows
> (x86 and amd64 versions) on the cups.org website as it is recommended in
> the man page of cupsaddsmb. However I cannot found the drivers on the site.
>
> The questions are:
>
> 1) Where can I found the current cups windows postscript drivers both for
> x86 and amd64 architectures?
> 2) Is the CUPS + SAMBA integration using cups ps drivers currently
> deprecated?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jan Hubeny
>
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-Alex