Van Sickler, Jim
2002-May-02 12:33 UTC
[Samba] Can't display HP4Plus Printer Properties, but can HP4MV, etc
One step forward, ??? steps back.... I updated my 2.2.3a to 2.2.4pre yesterday to see if it would clear up some oddities...not really. In fact, now there's one that wasn't there before. I have the following HP printers installed on my server: HP4Plus, HP4MV, HP570, HP450C. I also have other printers that use their own executable to install drivers: Lexmark Optra S 1250, Mita Ci1000, and Textronix Phaser 550 (Mita/Phaser use the AdobePS driver supplied by Adobe, v5.2) Before I install any of them on my Win2k system, I can view the properties/install drivers of all of them. Once I install the HP4Plus driver, I can't view the properties of the HP4Plus, on my system or the Samba server's list of printers. I can install any of the other printers on my system, and still view their properties on my system or the Samba server. If I uninstall the HP4Plus from my system, I can once again see it's properties on the Samba server. The drivers used are HP's HP4Plus PCL5e v4.3.2.38. and v02.12.02. I stopped Samba, deleted the printing.tdb, ntprinters.tdb, ntdrivers.tdb. Deleted the print$ share contents; added the COLOR, W32X86 and Win40 dir's again. Restarted Samba, re-installed the drivers. No change in the HP4Plus behavior. I've also cleaned out my registry of all printing links to that server (AFAIK). OpenBSD 3.1 LPRng 3.8.10 Samba 2.2.4pre; 1 May 2002 copy of SAMBA_2_2. [smb.conf entries] disable spoolss = no use client driver = no Any ideas would be welcome! This Samba box is my backup print server; I'm testing the Samba/LPRng/OpenBSD updates on it. So far, it's not ready for prime time... Jim