[K12OSN] OT: Pushing a printer to windows systems

David Hopkins dahopkins429 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 18:19:19 UTC 2007


That then requires making sure that Samba knows where the correct
printer definition files are located as well then so that the local
machine can install them correctly?

On 10/31/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:22 -0400, David Hopkins wrote:
> > This is OT, but is there a simple way to add a network printer to a
> > windows system via Samba?  Other than logging onto each system and
> > adding the printer manually, I have not found a simple way to do so.
> > Windows Server 2003 has a printer tool that can do so in an Active
> > Directory environment, but I am using LDAP.
> ----
> net use \\SERVER\PRINTER
>
> probably a good place to add this is in logon script
>
> type 'net use /?' on a Windows system to get other parameters to this
> command if necessary
>
> Craig
>
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