I have installed both CUPS and Samba om my local network without any problems. Reading through the smb.conf file there is something I do not understand and have not been able to find an explantion for. My smb.conf looks like this (relevant sections);
[global]
load printers = no
printing = cups
printcap name = cups

[Canon_Pixma]
public=yes
browseable=yes
printable=yes
printer=Canon_Pixma
path=/tmp
writeable=yes
max connections=0
available=yes

What I don't understand is the line "printcap name = cups"
As I have understood this line tells samba where to find the printcap file which shows the available printers.
Why does it say cups and not the location of the printcap file i.e. /etc/printcap ??

Another question about printing and samba. Can I somehow have the print drivers on the samba server or do I need to configure each connecting client? Can this task somehow be centralized?

Thank you in advance

twallstr

/etc/printcap is used by lpr but not by cups which has its own config file. This line in samba is likely telling it to redirect print requests to cups rather than trying to do lpr which would use /etc/printcap.