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Push Windows Printer Drivers with CUPS

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Enterprise Networking Planet; By Carla Schroder
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Network printing is a leading cause of high blood pressure and premature hair loss in our long-suffering network administrator demographic. Fortunately, the FOSS world, as usual, does its best to mitigate our suffering. Today you shall learn how to use CUPS and Samba together to set up automagic client printer installations. That's right, my hardworking friends, none of this dashing about to individual workstations burdened with driver disks and Windows CDs. The goal here is to never leave your snug underground lair.

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Pretty sure that this is a Windows flaw, but, I haven't seen that you can get any Windows connected usb printer working, at least under w2k.

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