Aside from the coolness factor of seeing documents from windows word processing and graphics applications appearing in the output tray of the unix printer this facility can greatly increase the usefulness of your samba server.
Samba print server windows 10.
Thus 64 bit drivers stored on this print server can only be assigned to a printer if additionally a 32 bit driver with exactly the same name is uploaded.
I can confirm that the samba user details are correct.
Why doesn t ubuntu support wds natively.
Don t use samba printing on this device.
This name is used in the smb conf when sharing the printer using samba.
So it may happen that this feature gets integrated into samba at some time in the future.
Instead use cups the printing system used by apple and linux computers which happens to be installed enough on this device to work.
That can be frustrating for windows 10 machines.
This is done by adding or modifying the max protocol definition as follows.
This issue has been raised in the samba bug tracker since 2015.
I have a windows 10 pc connecting to a linux file server.
Using the default setting samba reports itself as windows nt x86 architecture.
Considering how many businesses rely on samba for the sharing of folders this was a bad move.
Enter a name for the printer.
Select the raw printer vendor and model.
In fact to easily make the fedora 23 machine visible to the windows 10 machines i had to modify the etc samba smb conf file in etc samba to limit the smb protocol used by samba to smb2.
Note that forwarding a job to a print server running windows vista or newer or windows server 2008 or newer requires authentication.
While the samba shares work perfectly from windows 10 printing seems to be completely baffed so the solution as also noted by others above is.
Max protocol smb2.
When windows 10 was released it seemingly broke the ability to easily connect to linux samba shares.
Uploading only 64 bit drivers to a samba print server.
To add a raw printer to a lprng print server.
With the addition of a wsd service in ubuntu windows 10 will discover the linux samba server using its native wsd protocol.