Hello Samba-Team and List-Members, Having the new Samba 2.2.4 installed I tried to upload all printer drivers for Windows 2000 to the server. For most of the printers (16) everything seems to work (after hacking some inf-files for older Texas-Instruments Postscript printers). With a HP Deskjet 1120 there are still problems. What I've done so far: (1) added a print share for the DJ 1120 in smb.conf (2) installed driver locally on a W2k client for testing (3) printed a testpage - everything ok (4) uploaded the printer-driver from the Windows 2000 Server CD to the server (the printer driver from the HP-Web-Site could not be uploaded because of one file - ecp*.sys? -> PROBLEM) (5) tried to change the printer properties in the Server APW, changes are persistent - well (6) connected a W2k SP2 client to the printer via the local Add-Printer-Wizard and printed a testpage -> o.k. (7) tried to view the printer properties on the client results in a message-box saying: "The printer properties can not be showed. The procedure could not be finished" (translated from german) -> ERROR I'm member of the printer admin group and the upload worked - so this might not be an access-rights problem. (8) tried to view the printer properties in the servers APW and got the same message box -> ERROR (9) detached the printer from all clients (10) went to the Servers APW and tried to show the printer properties. This works on _some_ clients on another client the message box "...properties can not be showed..." comes up again -> ERROR (11) reattached the printer to some clients, again no access to the properties on _all_ clients and the APW for the Samba server There seems to be some kind of locking with this driver that is not noticed with other drivers (mostly HP Laserjets und Xerox/Tektronix Phasers using Postscript Drivers). With this locking printer-admins loose control over the printe since properties can not be viewed/changed as long as there is a clients attached - and there will always be some clients attached because the printer is "mounted" through the startup-script. And even worse, applications which use the properties wont be able to read them and might reject printing to this printer, although MS Word 97 seems to work with the DJ 1120, one can change the paper size. Any solution for this, beside of 'use client driver'? I can send level 10 logs if someone is interested. Thanks, Martin --- Martin THOMAS University of Kaiserslautern, Institute of Environmental Engineering,
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Thomas wrote: Hello Samba-Team and List-Members, i had a similar problem with an hp deskjet 2500cm printer. the 2500 series printer driver get uploaded, i can connect, but when printing: nothing happens on the samba and cups server. after changing the printer driver to 2500 pcl5e driver. i was able to print. but the quality was pretty poor. after installing the 2500postscript driver, we was able to print, beside it took about 5min, until the printer began to work. but the ps driver wont work on w2k only on win nt? until now no problem, cause the customer has only nt4 sp6a running (beside on two notebooks) greetings - -- # Thomas Stegbauer # Tronicplanet Datendienst GmbH # http://www.keyserver.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFF837A1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE81l8qzrK/xv+DehoRAs0EAJ9ZM33uEqtxcIutrhtBb5kHca2hAACglxod 18qyCzWkPPxioofpr3M2l1s=Cw7t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
What is the proper Spool folder on the File->Server Properties->Advanced tab? What should the *nix permissions/user.group be? I get "Server spool directory location is invalid" when I try to specify any logging options, and the spool folder is set (e.g. \\samba2\print$\spool) to an existing directory name. Jim> -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald Carter [mailto:jerry@samba.org] > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:14 AM > To: thomas.stegbauer@tronicplanet.de > Cc: Martin Thomas; samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] 2.2.4/spools/HP DJ 1120 driver problem > > > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Thomas Stegbauer wrote: > > > how to remove a serverdriver without dropping all $LOCKDIR/nt*.tdb? > > Connect as a printer admin to the samba box froma Win2k client > and browse through the network neighboprhood to the Printers > folder on the Samba server. Then goto File->Server Properties > and select the "Drivers" tab in the dialog window that appears. > > > > > > > > > > > > > cheers, jerry > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com > SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org > -- http://www.plainjoe.org > "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 > --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
OK-I'll ignore it until info'd otherwise. Jim> -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald Carter [mailto:jerry@samba.org] > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:26 PM > To: Van Sickler, Jim > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: RE: [Samba] 2.2.4/spools/HP DJ 1120 driver problem > > > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Van Sickler, Jim wrote: > > > What is the proper Spool folder on the > > File->Server Properties->Advanced tab? > > What should the *nix permissions/user.group be? > > > > I get "Server spool directory location is invalid" > > when I try to specify any logging options, and > > the spool folder is set (e.g. \\samba2\print$\spool) > > to an existing directory name. > > Those properties are irrelavent. We don't currently > support any of them.
Hi all. Just want to mention that we have similar problems as the original poster with Postscript drivers for HP LaserJet 4 Si, 4000N and 4050N. With drivers for a QMS Magicolor all seems fine. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ?ke Holmlund Tel: +46 - 90 786 57 16 Ume? University Fax: +46 - 90 786 65 50 Dept of informatics Email: holm@informatik.umu.se SE-901 87 Ume? Sweden