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| You can either install the Adobe PostScript driver and basically follow the instructions for the other Windows versions, or you can install the cups-samba package, which contains a free PostScript driver for Windows NT4/2000/XP from the makers of CUPS, and use the cupsaddsmb command as explained below. The cupsaddsmb command exports the PostScript driver from the cups-samba package and the PPD('s) associated with your filtering CUPS queues to the Samba printer drivers directory, making them available for semi-automatic download to Windows NT4/2000/XP hosts. | | You can either install the Adobe PostScript driver and basically follow the instructions for the other Windows versions, or you can install the cups-samba package, which contains a free PostScript driver for Windows NT4/2000/XP from the makers of CUPS, and use the cupsaddsmb command as explained below. The cupsaddsmb command exports the PostScript driver from the cups-samba package and the PPD('s) associated with your filtering CUPS queues to the Samba printer drivers directory, making them available for semi-automatic download to Windows NT4/2000/XP hosts. |
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− | <ol><li></li>Make sure that you've added at least one filtering queue and that you've "synchronized the printer lists" from the server-manager's printer panel. | + | <ol></li><li>Make sure that you've added at least one filtering queue and that you've "synchronized the printer lists" from the server-manager's printer panel. |
− | <li></li>Install the cups-samba package, which provides a freely distributable PostScript driver for Windows NT4/2000/XP, with yum (this assumes you have added the 'rvandenaker-cups' repository to your yum configuration). | + | </li><li>Install the cups-samba package, which provides a freely distributable PostScript driver for Windows NT4/2000/XP, with yum (this assumes you have added the 'rvandenaker-cups' repository to your yum configuration). |
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| yum install cups-samba | | yum install cups-samba |
− | <li></li>Set "use client driver = no" in smb.conf through the UseClientDriver database property. | + | </li><li>Set "use client driver = no" in smb.conf through the UseClientDriver database property. |
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| db configuration setprop smb UseClientDriver no | | db configuration setprop smb UseClientDriver no |
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| service smb restart | | service smb restart |
− | <li></li>Run cupsaddsmb from the root prompt to "export" your printers. You can export individual printers with the command line | + | </li><li>Run cupsaddsmb from the root prompt to "export" your printers. You can export individual printers with the command line |
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| cupsaddsmb -U admin -v printer1 [printer2...printerX] | | cupsaddsmb -U admin -v printer1 [printer2...printerX] |
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| These command lines connect to the samba server as admin, so you need to supply the admin password when prompted. | | These command lines connect to the samba server as admin, so you need to supply the admin password when prompted. |
− | <li></li>Printer setup on your Windows NT4/2000/XP hosts should now be a "Point 'n Print" affair. Just browse to a printer on your SME Server share, right click on it and select "Install..." or "Connect..." (depending on Windows version). | + | </li><li>Printer setup on your Windows NT4/2000/XP hosts should now be a "Point 'n Print" affair. Just browse to a printer on your SME Server share, right click on it and select "Install..." or "Connect..." (depending on Windows version). |
− | <li></li>Repeat the previous step for all printers.</li></ol> | + | </li><li>Repeat the previous step for all printers.</li></ol> |
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| ====Printing from Windows 2000/XP over IPP==== | | ====Printing from Windows 2000/XP over IPP==== |