Publish a samba printer to the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory (AD)
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2008-01-03


Purpose:
If you have taken the time to create a samba printer on linux and want users to
be able to find the printer in the Directory on W2K3 AD, follow these simple
steps to publish the printer in AD.

1.  Make sure you follow these steps to add the linux host to AD:
http://www.turnpike420.net/linux/Samba_add_to_AD.txt
2.  Open AD Users and Computers
3.  Go to View - Users, Groups and Computers as Containers
4.  Go to example.com - Servers - linux_hostname, which will now open as a container
5.  Right click inside it and choose New - Printer
6.  Fill in the printer path as \\linux_hostname\samba_printername