Hello, As of today we seem to be having printer issues. As in computers that were working fine suddenly decided to stop working. One one computer. No printers won't work at all. For some printers, if I remove and reinstall, it complains that there are no printer drivers on the server (incorrect). When past this stage, none of the printers work. When I click the print test page button I get an immediate generic "failure to print" type response. Just in case I deleted all printers and then deleted all drivers, but it doesn't seem to have helped. On another computer all printers work except for one, which produces the same generic failure message. On another computer everything works fine. Including deleting printers, adding printers, etc. Any ideas? Samba 3.4.2 Window XP clients Thanks Brian May
Brian May wrote:> Any ideas?No ideas? I have tried everything I can think of, including reinstalling the printer drivers on the server (which works fine). It is starting to look like I will have to go to every desk top in turn and reinstall the print drivers so they connect directly to the printer instead of via Samba :-( Brian May
Printing in 3.4.x is broken for the most part. It's only good for simple printing with WindowsXP 32 bit with certain drivers. Why this isn't being acknowledged by the SAMBA team is unknown. If you need a fully functional managed print server within a samba domain use 3.3.8. Neil Brian May wrote:> Hello, > > As of today we seem to be having printer issues. As in computers that > were working fine suddenly decided to stop working. > > One one computer. No printers won't work at all. For some printers, if > I remove and reinstall, it complains that there are no printer drivers > on the server (incorrect). When past this stage, none of the printers > work. When I click the print test page button I get an immediate generic > "failure to print" type response. > > Just in case I deleted all printers and then deleted all drivers, but it > doesn't seem to have helped. > > On another computer all printers work except for one, which produces > the same generic failure message. > > On another computer everything works fine. Including deleting printers, > adding printers, etc. > > Any ideas? > > Samba 3.4.2 > Window XP clients > > Thanks > > Brian May > >