samba - Feb 2014 - Windows 8.1 64-bit printer sharing issue

Hello,

We have setup a Samba 4.1.0 server that has worked great so far.

We have a printer share that is set up so that our users  access the printers
around the office directly via a central location. It is setup so that the
users' computers can get the driver directly from the print server. We use
CUPS to manage the printers. It is deployed via GPO.

It works great for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit as well as Windows 8.1 32-bit.

We are encountering problems with Windows 8.1 64-bit. The driver installation
works successfully as we can see the driver on the client computer.

Despite this, when we try to access the shared printer we get the following
error : "Operation failed with error 0x000006d1". We get the same
error with every shared printer we have available on that server.

I have attached to this email the Samba associated produced when trying to
access the printer. IP's starting in "127.0" are just for
obfuscation. The actual log has the correct IPs of the server and client.

What parameters can we modify to enable this compatibility with Win8.1 64-bit ?
Is this a known limitation of the version we are using ? Has somebody been able
to share printers with Win8.1 64-bit successfully ?

I would be more than happy to provide more information should it be needed.

Have a nice day,

Antoine
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Hi,

having seen this error on some (but not all) of my Win8.1 64-bit
machines, it helped to set the following reg key on the client [1]:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers]
"ForceCSREMFDespooling"=dword:00000000

Alternatively, set the policy "Always render print jobs on the server"
to "Disabled" via GPO to avoid touching the registry on every client.
Both worked fine for me, hope it helps for you, too.

Regards
Philipp

[1] Credits to
http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2013/06/fix-error-0x000006d1-using-level-3.html

Am 27.02.2014 15:22, schrieb Antoine Benkemoun:
> We have setup a Samba 4.1.0 server that has worked great so far.
> 
> We have a printer share that is set up so that our users  access the
printers around the office directly via a central location. It is setup so that
the users' computers can get the driver directly from the print server. We
use CUPS to manage the printers. It is deployed via GPO.
> 
> It works great for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit as well as Windows 8.1
32-bit.
> 
> We are encountering problems with Windows 8.1 64-bit. The driver
installation works successfully as we can see the driver on the client computer.
> 
> Despite this, when we try to access the shared printer we get the following
error : "Operation failed with error 0x000006d1". We get the same
error with every shared printer we have available on that server.
> 
> I have attached to this email the Samba associated produced when trying to
access the printer. IP's starting in "127.0" are just for
obfuscation. The actual log has the correct IPs of the server and client.
> 
> What parameters can we modify to enable this compatibility with Win8.1
64-bit ? Is this a known limitation of the version we are using ? Has somebody
been able to share printers with Win8.1 64-bit successfully ?
> 
> I would be more than happy to provide more information should it be needed.