samba - Mar 2002 - printing from win2k - suddently wrong paper size

Hi, 

I run samba as PDC and print server for our domain. The printer is an HP
LaserJet 4 Plus (non-postscript,A4), and its drivers were installed on the
server with imprints month ago. These drivers are the german versions from
HP, so they are already preconfigured for A4. Anyway, I configured them to
my needs from an NT4 afterwards (I explicitly set A4 again) and everything
worked alright for the last 9 month or so! Oh, the printer spooler on the
server is LPRng with no special filter except a page counter.

Since the upgrade to 2.2.3a my win2k users started to complain, that they
suddently aren't able to print A4 anymore. The printer always asks them for
Letter, which is not installed. The funny thing is that some of their
applications are still able to print A4, but not all of them. This
behaviour is vendor independent, e.g. MS Excel might work, but MS Word on
the same system might not. One might have problems with Netscape, another
one not, etc.

There are no complains from winXP users so far, but that means nothing,
there aren't that many. No complains from NT4, win9X or Linux users.

any Ideas ??

thanks in advance,
Martin

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Martin Kaehmer wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I run samba as PDC and print server for our domain. The printer is an HP
> LaserJet 4 Plus (non-postscript,A4), and its drivers were installed on the
> server with imprints month ago. These drivers are the german versions from
> HP, so they are already preconfigured for A4. Anyway, I configured them to
> my needs from an NT4 afterwards (I explicitly set A4 again) and everything
> worked alright for the last 9 month or so! Oh, the printer spooler on the
> server is LPRng with no special filter except a page counter.
> 
> Since the upgrade to 2.2.3a my win2k users started to complain, that they
2.2.3a is buggy wrt to printer driver download.  Have you tried
the patches I sent to the list to address this?  You can grab the patches
from ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/jerry/samba-2.2.3a-patches/

You also might want to test out the lates SAMBA_2_2 cvs code.










cheers, jerry
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