cupsaddsmb
export printers to samba for windows clients
Synopsis
cupsaddsmb
[ -H samba-server ] [ -U
samba-user[%samba-password] ] [ -h
cups-server[:port] ] [ -v ] -a
cupsaddsmb [ -H samba-server ] [ -U
samba-user[%samba-password] ] [ -h
cups-server[:port] ] [ -v ] printer [ ... printer
]
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description
cupsaddsmb
exports printers to the SAMBA software (version 2.2.0 or
higher) for use with Windows clients. Depending on the SAMBA
configuration, you may need to provide a password to export
the printers. This program requires the Windows printer
driver files described below.
options
cupsaddsmb
supports the following options:
-H samba-server
Specifies the SAMBA server
which defaults to the CUPS server.
-U
samba-user[%samba-password]
Specifies the SAMBA print admin
username which defaults to your current username. If the
username contains a percent (%) character, then the text
following the percent is treated as the SAMBA password to
use.
-a
Exports all known printers. Otherwise only the named
printers are exported.
-h cups-server[:port]
Specifies a different CUPS
server to use.
-v
Specifies that verbose information should be shown. This
is useful for debugging SAMBA configuration problems.
adobe postscript drivers for windows 95- 98- and me
cupsaddsmb can use the Adobe PostScript printer driver for
Windows 95, 98, and ME, which are available for download from the
Adobe web site (http://www.adobe.com).
The Adobe driver does not support the page-label, job-billing, or
job-hold-until options.
Once you have installed the driver on a Windows system, copy the
following files to the /usr/share/cups/drivers directory
exactly as named below:
[Windows 95, 98, and Me]
ADFONTS.MFM
ADOBEPS4.DRV
ADOBEPS4.HLP
ICONLIB.DLL
PSMON.DLL
Note: Unlike Windows, case is significant - make sure that
you use the UPPERCASE filenames shown above, otherwise
cupsaddsmb will fail to export the drivers.
copyright
Copyright 2007-2013 by Apple Inc.
cups postscript drivers for windows
cupsaddsmb can use the CUPS v6 PostScript printer driver
for Windows, which is available for download from the CUPS web
site.
The CUPS printer driver is preferred over the Adobe and Microsoft
drivers since it supports the page-label, job-billing, and
job-hold-until options fully on all printers. However, currently
only Windows 2000 and higher is supported by the CUPS driver, so
you will also need to get the Adobe driver to support Windows 95,
98, and Me clients.
Once you have extracted the driver files, copy the 32-bit drivers
to the /usr/share/cups/drivers directory and the 64-bit
drivers to the /usr/share/cups/drivers/x64 directory
exactly as named below:
[Windows 2000 and higher]
cups6.inf (from www.cups.org)
cups6.ini (from www.cups.org)
cupsps6.dll (from www.cups.org)
cupsui6.dll (from www.cups.org)
ps5ui.dll (from your Windows system)
pscript.hlp (from your Windows system)
pscript.ntf (from your Windows system)
pscript5.dll (from your Windows system)
Note: Unlike Windows, case is significant - make sure that
you use the lowercase filenames shown above, otherwise
cupsaddsmb will fail to export the drivers.
known issues
Getting the full set of Windows driver files should be easier.
microsoft postscript drivers for windows
The base driver for Windows 2000 and higher is the Microsoft
PostScript driver, which is available on any system running
Windows 2000 or higher in the
%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\DRIVERS\W32X86\3 folder for 32-bit
drivers and %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\DRIVERS\X64\3 folder for
64-bit drivers.
The CUPS printer driver is preferred over the Microsoft driver
since it supports the page-label, job-billing, and job-hold-until
options fully on all printers. However, currently only Windows
2000 and higher is supported by the Microsoft driver, so you will
also need to get the Adobe driver to support Windows 95, 98, and
Me clients. The Adobe and Microsoft drivers for Windows 2000 are
identical.
Once you have extracted the driver files, copy the 32-bit drivers
to the /usr/share/cups/drivers directory and the 64-bit
drivers to the /usr/share/cups/drivers/x64 directory
exactly as named below:
[Windows 2000 and higher]
ps5ui.dll
pscript.hlp
pscript.ntf
pscript5.dll
Note: Unlike Windows, case is significant - make sure that
you use the lowercase filenames shown above, otherwise
cupsaddsmb will fail to export the drivers.
samba configuration
cupsaddsmb uses the new RPC-based printing support in
SAMBA 2.2.x to provide printer drivers and PPD files to Windows
client machines. In order to use this functionality, you must
first configure the SAMBA smb.conf(5) file to support
printing through CUPS and provide a printer driver download
share, as follows:
[global]
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /etc/samba/drivers
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
write list = root
This configuration assumes a FHS-compliant installation of SAMBA;
adjust the [printers] and [print$] share paths accordingly on
your system as needed.
see also
smbd,
smb.conf, http://localhost:631/help
http://www.cups.org/windows/