Understanding the export printer driver feature

[A.Th.C.Hulst]

Hello,

I had exactly the same problem as Chris Howells described in the thread:

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-print/2003-January/000198.html

Kurt Pfeife suggested to try and compile cups-1.1.18. It took me some 
fiddling, but I have a working system now. I have:

cups-1.1.18 and the PostScript drivers that are for download on www.cups.org, 
together with samba-2.2.8a. Samba 3.0-alpha does NOT work. The trick that 
made it work however, is to only have the files

ADFONTS.MFM  ADOBEPS4.DRV  ADOBEPS4.HLP  cupsdrvr.dll  cups.hlp  cupsui.dll  
DEFPRTR2.PPD  ICONLIB.DLL  PSMON.DLL

in /usr/share/cups/drivers, and not ADOBEPS5 drivers. As Kurt suggested, 
start with a fresh install of the drivers by removing /etc/samba/drivers/* 
and rm -f /var/cache/samba/*.tbd (restart samba).

One thing that made installation fail for me, was the fact that I use a W2k 
server as authentication server. Obviously, the domain does not know a user 
root (which is obligatory for cupsaddsmb). You can get around this by 
TEMPORARILY add a user root to /etc/samba/smbpasswd.

Cheers,
Sander Hulst