samba - Jan 2007 - Vista can't use samba hosted printer drivers

Is anyone else seeing Vista (final) will not "connect" to a
samba-hosted
printer? I'm getting error 0x00000057. I can connect to the port only
and install a local driver, though. It's just that the drivers will not load
correctly. The drivers do load partly, because I can see driver-specific
attributes if I go to "Properties" rather than "Connect".
But a test print
from there fails also.


Samba server: Fedora Core 6 i386, samba-3.0.23c-2
Vista client, Vista Business (32-bit) final
Printer: HP LaserJet 4000 PCL6, driver from XP SP2.

The same printer served from a Windows 2003 server
will connect just fine to a Vista client.

Vista will connect to samba shared directories just fine.

Any ideas?

Pim

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Pim Zandbergen wrote:
> Is anyone else seeing Vista (final) will not "connect" to 
> a samba-hosted printer? I'm getting error 0x00000057. I can
> connect to the port only and install a local driver, though.
> It's just that the drivers will not load
> correctly. The drivers do load partly, because I can see 
> driver-specific attributes if I go to "Properties" rather than
> "Connect". But a test print from there fails also.
I tested against the Vista RC builds and printing was fine.
But it seems some things were changed before the final
bits.  We'll have to do some more testing to find out the
scope of it.




cheers, jerry

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Hello all!

I'm still not shure about the reason, but perhaps someone become an idea:

I think, the issue has something to do with the ChangeID of the printer.
I can reproduce the following behaviour:

1. Trying to make a clean install from Vista fails with thid "invalid 
paramenter" error (0x00000057)
2. If I change a registry value of this printer remotely from a 
different machine (XP client) => Vista installs the printer after that!
3. Now I change some default printer settings from the XP client (= set 
the devicemode) => 50-70% chance, that Vista will no longer install this 
printer from samba.
4. If I change some registry values again => installation succeeds.

I've seen strange ChangeId values (e.g. 0x7de4133e). Don't know where 
they are from.

Anyone, who sees a light with this information?

Bye,

Martin

Pim Zandbergen schrieb:
> Is anyone else seeing Vista (final) will not "connect" to a
samba-hosted
> printer? I'm getting error 0x00000057. I can connect to the port only
> and install a local driver, though. It's just that the drivers will not
> load
> correctly. The drivers do load partly, because I can see driver-specific
> attributes if I go to "Properties" rather than
"Connect". But a test print
> from there fails also.
> 
> 
> Samba server: Fedora Core 6 i386, samba-3.0.23c-2
> Vista client, Vista Business (32-bit) final
> Printer: HP LaserJet 4000 PCL6, driver from XP SP2.
> 
> The same printer served from a Windows 2003 server
> will connect just fine to a Vista client.
> 
> Vista will connect to samba shared directories just fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Pim
> 
-- 
Martin Zielinski             mz@seh.de
Software Development
SEH Computertechnik GmbH     www.seh.de

Hi,
> Is anyone else seeing Vista (final) will not "connect" to 
> a samba-hosted printer? I'm getting error 0x00000057
We have seen slightly different behaviour with point and print on
a Windows Vista Home Basic Laptop.  Older printers such as HP 4050
series laserjet and  HP LaserJet 1200 install and print correctly.
Newer printers such as the Kyocera FS-C5016N colour laser and FS-1118MFP
multi-function laser give the 0x00000057 error.

I remember that these Kyocera drivers would not install on XP as
a non-administrator user.  This could be overcome by installing as
administrator [which installed the driver] and then clicking on the
printer on the samba server as an ordinary user.  Alternatively changing
XP group policy by disabling "Users can only Point and Print to machines
in their Forest" also allowed ordinary users to install the printers
from scratch.

Doug
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