samba - Jul 2004 - Kyocera 680 KX and driver uploads failing - anybody have success?

Hi All,

Just a quick one.   Some turkey has bought a kyocera 680 and we have to set
it up for samba print sharing.   We have about 35 other HP, Lexmark, and
other things working a treat on this server so I know it's all working.

When I try to upload the driver for the kyocera it uploads fine from my
windoze box and everything looks sweet, I apply and I get the extra tabs as
expected for setting papersize etc.      

Sadly, when I got to add the printer on both 2k/xp and 9x it says, printer
drivers not installed do you want to install a printer driver.  So I go back
and right click, properties on the driver and it says the same thing, driver
not there, do you want to upload, to which I do 'no' and go and look in
the
advanced tab and it's there in the drop down list.   

Basically, to cut a long story short, Kyocera drivers obviously suck and do
something weird.   I got around the problem by using a standard HP4 driver
because these kyocera's don't do PS.  Still it would be nice to have the
right driver for that printer.    Anybody come across this before?

Thanks all,

Matthew

On 2 Jul 2004, at 12:21, mwestern@sola.com.au wrote:
> ... Kyocera drivers obviously suck and do something weird. ...
> Anybody come across this before?
Yes. I tried installing the drivers for three Kyocera FS 3830N printers 
that we've recently acquired. The printers seemed to work fine from 
CUPS (test page, printing from Linux and Mac OS X), then from Samba 
(again, printing from Mac OS X). So I installed the drivers on one 
Windows XP box, again, printing worked fine. But then installed the 
drivers to the Samba server to prepare for point-and-print, the drivers 
appear on the file system, but Windows XP continually thinks it hasn't 
got the drivers for that printer.

So I resorted to using the CUPS generic postscript printer drivers. 
Problem solved.

I know this doesn't help, but I hope you can find some comfort in 
knowing that someone else is afflicted with the Kyocera curse too ;)

Alex Satrapa
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