Hello, We've installed a samba-printserver at a customer using a large number of Nashuatec-printers. Most of them are Optra T164, formerly known as NRG P6025 PS3. In our setup we defined 1 user (printadmin) which manages all printers. All printusers are mapped to guest. User printadmin installed the printdrivers on the server and the clients download the driver during their first connection. So far everything works fine: everybody can print and download the drivers. But we also need to configure the driver: some printers have extra trays or an optional duplex module. That doesn't work: the settings aren't always saved. We also looked at the ntdrivers.tdb-file where the printer-information is stored and it contains some strings containing the settings we defined (things like 'Tray 3 500 Sheet'). But on a next update, that ntdrivers.tdb- file simply contains pure garbage. (To make sure the ntdrivers.tdb-file is synced, we always stop the smb-server before reading the .tdb-file). We also found out that we can change the 'Security' in the printer- configuration to allow _everybody_ to manage the printer. That way, everybody gets the correct seetings but can also modify them. If we allow only 'Print-access' to everybody, they cannot read any setting at all. To make sure our printserver-setup was ok, we tried with a 'simple' driver for an hp deskjet. Printadmin can perfectly configure the printer and all users get the correct settings. We also installed the nashuatec-drivers on a windows 2000-server and there it works ok: printadmin can change all values and users can read them. Since the hp deskjet didn't have a 'security'-option like the nashuatec-driver, we're wondering if samba doesn't (yet) support some parts of the 'printdriver'-protocol. Or is this a specific nashuatec-problem ? We've tried samba 2.2.1a-9 (debian), 2.2.1a-4 (redhat) and the cvs of October 9. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Michael Devogelaere.
Hey all, Does anyone have the latest word on the printer driver settings problem, where printer device settings were not getting sent to clients? Thanks :-) -Tom -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Jerry: It is my understanding that this patch is included in the current cvs of SAMBA_2_2 - is that correct or should a recent cvs [say ~July 1] be patched? I am not getting complains from users on this - just trying to be proactive... thanks, Paul Sanders Univera Health Care IT Excellus, Inc. paul.sanders@excellus.com |---------+----------------------------> | | Gerald Carter | | | <jerry@samba.org>| | | Sent by: | | | samba-admin@lists| | | .samba.org | | | | | | | | | 07/10/2002 09:49 | | | AM | | | | |---------+----------------------------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Tom.Klopf@mms.gov | | cc: samba@lists.samba.org | | Subject: Re: [Samba] print driver settings | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 Tom.Klopf@mms.gov wrote:> Hey all, > > Does anyone have the latest word on the printer driver settingsproblem,> where printer device settings were not getting sent to clients?2.2.5 shoudl be fine if you apply the parse_sec.patch in ftp.samba.org/pub/jerry/patches/post-2.2.5. There is one outstanding bug logged against duplex settings not being seen by applications. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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