[opensuse] Samba Print Server
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Hi I am trying to set up a print server using samba to share to windows clients. I have set up the printer in YaST and it prints from the opensuse 13.1 server I have set up samba and can see the printer.
From within windows, I go to add a driver to the print server, select the driver, then I get the error 'The drivers list was not refreshed. The driver data may be invalid.'
I have been informed that this may be a permissions issue but I have no clue where to look! Can someone please help? -- Paul Groves -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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On 5/18/2014 12:53 PM, Paul Groves wrote:
Hi
I am trying to set up a print server using samba to share to windows clients.
I have set up the printer in YaST and it prints from the opensuse 13.1 server I have set up samba and can see the printer.
From within windows, I go to add a driver to the print server, select the driver, then I get the error 'The drivers list was not refreshed. The driver data may be invalid.'
I have been informed that this may be a permissions issue but I have no clue where to look!
Can someone please help?
Why are you trying to add a driver to the print server from windows? If this is a printer that windows already KNOWS about (has drivers for) there is no need to do this, just set up each machine to use its own driver, and in Samba, create a RAW queue name for the printer which will bypass any drivers that linux is using and send Windows print Jobs directly to the printer. If you ACTUALLY are trying to add Windows Print drivers to the Linux Server so that other windows machines can get the windows Print Drivers from the Linux machine then you have to do that while connecting as some Linux users that has permissions to add drivers. This is covered in the Samba docs, and quite frankly it is seldom done this why except for really large shops where a couple hundred different machines need to load these drivers. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Hi
I am trying to set up a print server using samba to share to windows clients.
I have set up the printer in YaST and it prints from the opensuse 13.1 server I have set up samba and can see the printer.
From within windows, I go to add a driver to the print server, select the driver, then I get the error 'The drivers list was not refreshed. The driver data may be invalid.'
I have been informed that this may be a permissions issue but I have no clue where to look!
Can someone please help? -- Paul Groves Hi Are you part of a domain? You get that error whilst copying the windows drivers to the samba print server and it either can't because the user does not have the SePrintOperatorPrivilege and/or the folder where the drivers are to be coped to are not writeable. Another common error is
On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 12:53 -0700, Paul Groves wrote: that the printer name = cups-printername parameter is wrong. Without the [printers] and [print$] shares and a little more information it's difficult to help further. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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