- Edit the Samba configuration file to include the appropriate lines for CUPS printing (
sudo pico /etc/smb.conf
) - Add
browseable = yes
to the [printers] section (so the printer shows up when browsing the network) - Add 'use client driver = yes' to [printers] (don't know if this affects Windows 98 clients though)
- sudo chmod 777 /var/spool/samba should be 700?)
- Download the Adobe Postscript printer drivers for Windows 98
- Use unzip to decompress the exe file
- sudo mkdir /usr/share/cups/drivers
- Rename and copy in the appropriate downloaded files
- sudo mkdir /etc/samba/drivers
- Use cupsaddsmb -v -a to add the drivers to Samba (needs root username and password)
- Copy manually from /usr/share/cups/drivers to /etc/samba/drivers any files that didn't get copied (for some reason it was automatically looking for the ADOBEPS5 and not ADOBEPS4 files).
- Restart Windows Sharing and Printer Sharing in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.
- On the Windows 98 machine, browse the network to add the new printer. If it asks for a username and password, you have to make sure that there is an account with the same name on the Mac as you are logged in under on Windows 98.
- Or, download the Adobe Postscript drivers for Windows 98 as above and use the installer to add the new printer from the network. I guess this makes adding the drivers on the host unnecessary, but I'm not sure which drivers were actually used.
That's as much as I can remember, but it's possible there might have been something else in the trial and error process that made a difference, or that some of this isn't even necessary.