HP printers in SOLARIS 10

Dear all,
we are using cups 1.1.20 on our Sparc running Solaris 10
5/09 where printers from XEROX and HP are to be used.
By copying the XEROX .ppd files to /opt/sfw/cups/share/cups
/model we are able to setup the XEROX printers via the GUI
where we select the relevant drivers under the Model XEROX
menu.
Now we want to do the same procedure with the HP printers:
Although we put some HP .ppd files to ../share/cups/model
Dir they didn't appear in the GUI's Model HP submenu.
Instead of that we see all the "foomatic/hpijs" models
stored under /opt/sfw/cups/share/cups/model/hpijs/HP.
Why? and 2nd question: Is there any way to force the GUI
to accept also the HP .ppd files under ../share/cups/
model Dir.
THX, Rainer

I found the HP JetDirect Printer Installer for UNIX on the HP website. The version is E.10.34, dated 5 Aug 2002. The HP site says it is for Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and 9. Should this installer be used with Solaris 10?
Alice Soteriou, in a Dec. 2001 article ("Basic Principles of Printing in Solaris 2.6 and Above") on the Sun website says, "Sun's position on this is to always use the vendor-supplied application to create the print queues. This is because it will probably supply the exact interface file to make the most of your printer's features (that is, duplexors, multiple trays, different font sizes and styles, etc.)" However, elsewhere on the Sun site, there are warnings against using such applications for security reasons and comments that the HP JetDirect Print Installer is not supported. What is Sun's current advice on this?
Alice's 2001 article has been reproduced as postings on supportforum.sun and sunsolve.sun.com with dates in January and February of 2005, but these repostings do not address using this application with Solaris 10.

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Hi Im new to solaris and trying out ZFS which has been great.
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First how do you mount an NTFS volume in Solaris 11 Express?
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http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/u46DbWSGcIzl7pexf4hQ
>
Secondly, I have read only access on my samba shares from windows machines but my smb.conf looks right. a copy of my smb.conf will follow
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1448/gaynd.html#gayne

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