Add Samba printers in Leopard
Posted by: rkassissieh
December052007
Putting together a couple of other web resources, here is a step-by-step guide to adding Samba printers in Leopard. Our Windows print server is on a different subnet from many of our users, so the printers don't show up automatically. This method also passes user credentials to the print server. Next step: to automate this process so that we can add multiple printers in one step.
1. Open System Preferences -> Print & Fax.
2. Select to add a new printer.
3. The first time you do this, add the Advanced button to the add printer toolbar. Ctrl-click on the toolbar, select "Customize Toolbar...", and then drag the Advanced button onto the toolbar.
4. Select Advanced then specify the following printer settings.
Type: Windows
Device: Another Device
URL: smb://username:password@domain/printserver/printername, where username is your network username, password is your password, domain is your Windows domain, printserver is the name of your print server, and printername is the name of the printer share.
Name: the printer name
Location (optional): the physical location of the printer, e.g. "Vollum common space"
Print Using: Select a driver to use -> search for the correct model.
Select the Add button to save this printer. If prompted, select Duplexing. That should do it!
Update 1/8/2008: Thank you for the many positive comments to this post. It appears that print options such as duplex and landscape orientation are not working at our site. Does anyone know whether this is a known bug or something we may correct?
Update 3/7/2008: Looks like print options are fixed with Mac OS 10.5.2. Hooray!
1. Open System Preferences -> Print & Fax.
2. Select to add a new printer.
3. The first time you do this, add the Advanced button to the add printer toolbar. Ctrl-click on the toolbar, select "Customize Toolbar...", and then drag the Advanced button onto the toolbar.
4. Select Advanced then specify the following printer settings.
Type: Windows
Device: Another Device
URL: smb://username:password@domain/printserver/printername, where username is your network username, password is your password, domain is your Windows domain, printserver is the name of your print server, and printername is the name of the printer share.
Name: the printer name
Location (optional): the physical location of the printer, e.g. "Vollum common space"
Print Using: Select a driver to use -> search for the correct model.
Select the Add button to save this printer. If prompted, select Duplexing. That should do it!
Update 1/8/2008: Thank you for the many positive comments to this post. It appears that print options such as duplex and landscape orientation are not working at our site. Does anyone know whether this is a known bug or something we may correct?
Update 3/7/2008: Looks like print options are fixed with Mac OS 10.5.2. Hooray!
Richard Kassissieh is Director of Information Services at 
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