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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:33:59 -0400 Subject: Re: PPR: Windows printer driver autoinstall At 12:20 PM 9/10/99 +0100, you wrote: > >I'm not having any luck getting the driver autoinstall for windows users >to work. Any hints would be welcome. I would also like to confirm two >points: > >a) The instructions mention Windows 95, but my test clients are all >running windows 98. Can I assume Windows 98 should work? I think I tested it a few months ago. It seemed to work. >b) The printers.def file generated by pdd2samba seems to have unix rather >than DOS line-breaks. Is this ok? It should. It is read by a Unix program, namely Samba. Its presence in the shared folder is totally unecessary. >My setup is running PPR 1.40a5, Samba 2.0.4 and I'm setting up a HP >LaserJet 4000N. In addition to the PPD files, the following files in the >win95drv share are visible to users trying to set up a printer by drag and >drop: ICONLIB.DLL, PSMON.DLL, PSCRIPT.INI, PSCRIPT.DRV, PSCRIPT.HLP, >FONTS.MFM. > >The basic problem is that when a user drag-and-drops the PPR printer (or >double-clicks on it), the printer wizard still insists on making the users >select the manufacturer and model of the printer (based on the local >driver data). Make sure the "printer driver file =" line is in the [global] section. I think that, around the time of 1.40a5, the comments in the smb-protos.conf.sample file were wrong out which line had to be copied into the [global] section. ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center PostMaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106