All of the resources I can find provide detailed instructions for sharing Linux printers with Windows over SAMBA.
I would like to do the opposite.
I currently have CUPS configured so that it can add and print to printers shared from a Windows print server.
The problem is that I must manually configure the printer and select which driver it uses.
Is there any "out of the box" way to automatically determine the appropriate driver and/or autoconfigure a printer accessed via samba? If there are command line approaches I am comfortable wrapping them up in a script if need be. Any help would be appreciated.
1 Answer
This is the trick:
- Add a
print$share insmb.confif it doesn't already exist - Move the Windows drivers into
/usr/share/cups/drv - Run
cupsaddsmb -H localhost -U root -a -v
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