Auto Installation of a Print Driver from the Server?

Hi all,
I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I am fairly new at setting up Mac Servers and was looking for some advice. I am trying to set up a Mac 10.6 Server as a print server. I am familiar with setting up printing services on W2k3 servers, but have some questions about this on a Mac server. On a Windows server, once I have installed the printer with the correct driver and shared it out, users just need to connect to the server's print queue and the correct driver is automatically downloaded from the server and installed on the workstation. On the Mac server, it seems that even after I have set up the print queue and installed the needed driver, when I connect a Mac workstation to the queue, it automatically tries to use the Generic Postscript Driver. I then have to manually download and install the needed driver for the printer. Is there any way to get the Mac workstations to automatically download and install the driver from the server, or do I have to pre-load the needed driver on each Mac that will be using the shared printer?

tmcbride wrote:
Hi all,
I hope this is the correct forum for this question. I am fairly new at setting up Mac Servers and was looking for some advice. I am trying to set up a Mac 10.6 Server as a print server. I am familiar with setting up printing services on W2k3 servers, but have some questions about this on a Mac server. On a Windows server, once I have installed the printer with the correct driver and shared it out, users just need to connect to the server's print queue and the correct driver is automatically downloaded from the server and installed on the workstation. On the Mac server, it seems that even after I have set up the print queue and installed the needed driver, when I connect a Mac workstation to the queue, it automatically tries to use the Generic Postscript Driver. I then have to manually download and install the needed driver for the printer. Is there any way to get the Mac workstations to automatically download and install the driver from the server, or do I have to pre-load the needed driver on each Mac that will be using the shared printer?
A Mac Server can distribute Windows print drivers (along with settings) to Windows clients. It does it exactly the same way as Linux Samba servers and (older) Windows servers. This is done by creating a special hidden share point (using SMB), it is special in that it uses the name print$ the drivers and settings are then loaded (from a Windows PC) in to this share, and subsequent PCs can then automatically download them.
See http://www.techrepublic.com/article/techrepublic-tutorial-automate-desktop-print er-setup-with-samba/1053286 for some more information on how to do this.
Note: My past experience has seen the associated .tdb databases for this function stored on this share often get corrupted meaning one had to re-upload (from a Windows PC) the drivers again. Also despite the automatic distribution of drivers and settings being something Windows has done for decades, Apple are still very poor at this in terms of the equivalent Mac (server) to Mac (client). Finally, I have not seen (yet) whether this approach is possible with Windows 7 clients.

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