On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, James M Pulver wrote:

> I'm not really sure where the right place to ask this question as it
> touches on so many disparate technologies, but here goes. I'm trying
> to set up Windows 7 clients to print to printers served from SL5.5
> CUPS server using SAMBA to provide windows print sharing. We've got
> it working with the default CUPS postscript drivers, but it requires
> Admin on the Windows clients to install the driver.

SL5.5 has two versions of samba, v3.0.33 from the samba-* packages
and v3.3.8 from the samba3x-* packages. Since you are talking about
Windows 7 I assume you are using the samba3x-* packages ?

> So I want to manage this obviously and thought I could create a GPO
> using GPP Printer and set as a shared printer under the user part of
> the GPO. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work - I get various
> access denied. I expect this has something to do with even though
> SAMBA is joined to the same AD Domain as the Windows 7 clients, the
> machine accounts don't map to anything on the Linux side...

I haven't tried this with Windows 7 or samba3x but do remember that
with an earlier samba  (probably v2.x) I *did* map the machine accounts
to something on the linux side.

> I'm mostly wondering if anyone is doing something like this, and how
> they got it to work - or if there's a better managed way to do
> this. I.E. do you have Linux print to a Windows Print server? Use
> scripts to push printers to Windows? Some other method I don't know?

In the past I have had my windows machines print to a windows print
server, which prints to a linux print server, but that was in the days
when lpr was a first-class service on both platforms, rather than a
forgotten optional extra.

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