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* Join the Win2k or WinNT machine to your domain. This is covered elsewhere - see [SambaAsPDC]. This machine is referred to after this as the 'NT machine' for brevity.
* Find a user you can use that has an (effective) uid of 0 on the samba server. Note: This doesn't mean you have to use the root user, its actually ok to set a printer admin and use that.
* Login as this user to the NT machine.
-* Fire up the APW (Add Printer Wizard) and run through the wizard, adding appropriate drivers. You'll note that the
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+* Fire up the APW (Add Printer Wizard) and run through the wizard, adding appropriate drivers. You'll note that the APW prompts you with 'The server doesn't have drivers for this printer, would you like to upload them now?'
* After you've correctly added the drivers on the NT machine, right-click on the printer icon and select sharing. Make sure that sharing is enabled for this printer.
* Magic time. Not sure if this is neccesary - a reboot of the NT machine may do the job instead. Remove the printer you just added.
* Re-add the printer you just added. If things go well, it'll remember you already had the drivers intalled, and it'll just load up straight away
* Go to the properties page for the printer you just added, and go to the 'ports' section. After going through the above removal-readd rigmoral, I have only one port listed - a 'Samba Printer Port' one. Make sure this is checked.
