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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna