[Wine] Need some feedback on this Printing Solution
Gert van den Berg
wine-devel at mohag.net
Mon Feb 15 09:43:21 CST 2010
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 17:23, James McKenzie wrote:
> Source for your information on this? I know that printer drivers
> require Administrator level privileges to install and make any required
> registry changes. Those changes have to be user readable or they do not
> work.
>
Non-admin users can install printer drivers (for network printers at least)
and kernel-space drivers can be disabled from group policy.... (On the
network printers: Windows seem to basically share the port, with the client
running the driver. (This has the disadvantage that you need a driver for
every OS that cleints might be running...) With CUPS, the server runs the
driver and shares some standard interface...)
> As to the requirements to install printer drivers and operate in
> Windows/Linux/MacOSX. They run at RING 0 level, kernel. Not at Ring
> 2/3 (user). Thus installing Windows only printers will NEVER happen in
> Wine, as Wine strictly runs at ring 2/3. Thus you have to get a Linux
> driver in order to run in Wine.
>
Pre-Windows 2000, yes....
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758604%28WS.10%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791648.aspx have some more
information....
Gert
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20100215/1cc78aa8/attachment.htm>
More information about the wine-users
mailing list