[ale] Samba tricks?

[Geoffrey]

I do that at home.  I just drop the drivers in a directory on the share:

/share/win-drivers
/share/win-drivers/hp-printer
/share/win-drivers/epson

When I go to install the driver, I just select that folder.

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> I'm talking about having samba share out printer drivers for multiple
> clients.  So that when the Windows guy goes and installs a printer on
> a desktop, etc it pulls the correct driver from the samba server and the
> tech doesn't have to carry around 50 floppies of windows printer
> drivers.
> 
> Thus spake Greg (runman at speedfactory.net):
> 
> 
>>Hello, Robert;
>>
>>	I am not sure I understand.  My samba at home is a Windows NT PDC that
>>Windows 95,Windows 96, Windows NT 4.0 & Windows 2000 Pro see and understand.
>>In printing you can have the Windows client use a common driver on a box,
>>but SAMBA does not "push" content as afaik.  There is no need for drivers
>>for SAMBA use, either - just a TCP/IP connection.  The samba.conf file tells
>>SAMBA how to use the file structure - who and what can access stuff and in
>>what manner.  You do your file structure however you want (i.e. /MP3s,
>>/Wife_share, etc ...)  or you can have a directory called Win_drivers and
>>put your drivers there.  Make it accessible to all and then everyone can get
>>drivers from that directory.  Is this what you are talking about ?
>>
>>hope this helps
>>
>>Greg
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Robert L.
>>>Harris
>>>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:22 PM
>>>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>>Subject: [ale] Samba tricks?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I've been asked to help the Windows admin set up samba to push out
>>>drivers for different versions of windows.  Currently its set up to only
>>>share out for windows98 but supposedly there is a method to share out
>>>for multiple OS versions by changing the directory structure.
>>>
>>>Anyone have any information on this structure, etc?  I'm poking around
>>>samba.org but it's pretty obscure if it's there.
>>>
>>>Robert
>>>
>>>:wq!
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> :wq!
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> 
> Diagnosis: witzelsucht  	
> 
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