[ale] Samba tricks?

[Robert L. Harris]

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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DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

Diagnosis: witzelsucht  	

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