Created at 19:48 Apr 30, 2003 by pipitas, last modified at 19:57 Apr 30, 2003
Kurt Pfeifle has written a Draft for the Printing Chapter of the new Samba-3.0
HOWTO-Collection. It is available at
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-3rd-draft.html
A PDF version (for convenient printing) is at
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-3rd-draft.pdf
The new HOWTO-Collection is due for publication alongside the Samba 3.0 software release, probably sometime in May/June. The HOWTO Collection in all its draft components is already greatly enhanced and extended, and so is the printing part. Please help polish it even further..
Please: read it - use it - test its advices & recipes - feed your suggestions back to me. This way you can make the Samba Printing Documentation a better one. (You may also learn a bit from it at no cost at all... ;-)
The most recent PDF version of the complete HOWTO Collection is (until final release) available at
http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
(Note that this does not yet include my Samba Printing HOWTO part I am asking you to check and test.)
The printing draft contains 15 ASCII art flowcharts trying to to clarify and explain various aspects of Windows --> Samba printing and of CUPS printfile processing. However, I am not able to convert this into something "nice". So here goes the call to all who are willing and able to help out with their abilities to use one of the Free Software drawing or graphic programs: please provide some better illustrations for this important documentation. Download · Home Page · Listing
Very useful document. I've been finally able to implement automatic installation of windows drivers on windows machines. Saves us tons of work with new printers. Reply
Hi Kurt,
I read through your docs last night. Fantastic work. A bit more grammer and syntax cleanup to be done though which I'll be happy to contribute.
A couple of things I found not clear:
1) You talk about the CUPS Driver for Win2K/XP but I don't see how you would define a printer that will be using this driver in CUPS.
2) The driver you download from the CUPS website doesn't have a .inf file so it can't be installed using the APW.
Thanks,
Greg Reply
Hi, Kurti --
now I know what you've done over all these late nights and the last weekends in your office!
Brilliant stuff you put together here, really. I hope some of the many "DAUs" will read it at least.
But don't forget: life is not just computers -- and the weather is really nice these days. Take a few days off and enjoy yourself.
Cheers, You-know-who-I-am! Reply
Hi Kurt,
Thanks a lot for this pretty documents! We all have waited a long time for such detailed, but short description.
Franz Reply