[K12OSN] OT: Pushing a printer to windows systems

[David Hopkins]

Thanks, I will be trying it.

On 10/31/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> Yes - the printer definition/drivers either must be installed already on
> the computer (requires administrator privileges) or what I have found to
> be the absolutely best way of handling things...
>
> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#id388379
>
> Windows 'Add Printer Wizard' as administrator which will automatically
> install the print drivers (if needed) on any domain client system
>
> Craig
>
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:19 -0400, David Hopkins wrote:
> > 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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