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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 11:56:56 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Ted Buswell <tbuswell@acadia.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes
Message-ID:  <v04210102b548708abb20@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <14619.7058.880620.576742@smpbox>
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At 4:56 PM -0400 5/11/00, Ted Buswell wrote:
>I don't like the proposed idea (shell script mod of smb.conf) either,
>however I was under the impression with your lpr mod you would also
>bludgeon the user with 4*5*200 printer shares.
>
>I had thought that with your lpr mod, you still need to somehow add
>the "printer/hm" variations into the list of shares presented by samba.
>
>Or am I missing a samba configuration option that permits the user to
>specify the queue the job is sent to [instead of having them select
>from a predefined list] ?

We have enough regular printer queues that we ran into trouble
presenting a list of shares to the user.  (the problem might have
only been under win95).  Due to that, our users always connect
directly to a printer share, they do not browse for it.  They have
to define a printer as     \\sambasrv\unixptr

Many of our users are laptop users, so they only add the printers
they personally care about.  The unix side needs to know all the
printer names, but any given laptop (or even any of the PC's in
our public labs) only have about 10 printers defined.

I had not thought about browsing for printer shares.  I'll try
to keep that in mind too.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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