From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 19:58:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECED916A49E for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:58:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414F213C45B for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:58:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l0CJvdcG064013; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:57:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:54:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <45A7CB28.7010107@123.com.sv> In-Reply-To: <45A7CB28.7010107@123.com.sv> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701121454.12652.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?C=E9sar_Amaya?= Subject: Re: CUPS + X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:58:03 -0000 On Friday 12 January 2007 12:53, C=E9sar Amaya wrote: > Hi list, have you ever installed cups + samba for a print server? That > is what I am trying to do, the print server box set up is as the followin= g: > > - FreeBSD 6.1 release > - cups-1.2 > - samba 3 > - hpijs-2.1.4 > - foomatic-db-20061214 > - cups-samba-5.0.r3 > > I have installed and tested the printer properly via web interface of > cups. The problem comes when I try to push the Windows printer drivers > with cups, I get a error message > > # cupsaddsmb -H localhost -U root -h localhost -a -v > Password for root required to access localhost via SAMBA: > No Windows printer drivers are installed! > No Windows printer drivers are installed! > No Windows printer drivers are installed! > ... > I have already download the respective drivers. I don't have any experience pushing Windows printer drivers out through Sam= ba,=20 but I do know that cups clients (Windows or otherwise) don't need=20 printer-specific drivers. They should just use a PS driver (the one you can= =20 download from Adobe or one of the ones that ships with Windows) with the=20 appropriate ppd. JN