Samba printing with Windows 7

Uploading a printer driver

This is the directory structure in drivers directory:

The normal directory structure for your printer drivers looks like:

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  96 Feb 24 20:02 COLOR
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Feb 24 20:02 IA64
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Feb 24 20:02 W32ALPHA
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Feb 24 20:02 W32MIPS
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Feb 24 20:02 W32PPC
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  72 Feb 24 20:02 W32X86
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Feb 24 20:02 WIN40
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  48 Feb 24 20:02 x64

You have to create it yourself. Here is a command line which does it. You only have to change the value of BASEDIR:

BASEDIR=/var/lib/samba/drivers;
for X in COLOR IA64 W32ALPHA W32MIPS W32PPC W32X86 WIN40 x64; do 
  mkdir -p $BASEDIR/$X;
done

How to configure a printer admin user or group

Use the following command to give a user or group the printer admin capability:

 net rpc rights grant "<domain|hostname>\<user|group>" SePrintOperatorPrivilege -U <hostname>/root

Example:

 net rpc rights grant "server\admin" SePrintOperatorPrivilege -U server/root

This mean the user "admin" is granted printer admin rights by the user "root" on the hostname "server"

References:

1. Samba as a print server on Samba WIKI.