samba - Sep 2004 - Cannot enable "Enable advanced printing features"

Hi all.

I'm trying to use Samba to replace an old Windows print server, and
everything works just like a charm - almost...

There's one thing, which prevents my organization from accepting this new
printerserver, and that is that I'm unable to activate and save the
"Enable
advanced printing features" setting for the printers - this is used to
allow
for printing multiple pages onto one page etc. Samba doesn't give any
errors, the settings is just cleared the next time I open the preferences...
:-(

I'm using cups for the backend, and all printers are configured as raw
queues. The click'n'print feature are working nicely, and I can change
and
save all other settings beside this crusual "advanced features"
setting (so
it doesn't seem like a persission problem).

My collegues are killing me, and want to reinstall Windows - so please help
me out, if you can! ;)

Regards,
Kent B. Hansen

Le mardi 28 Septembre 2004 11:15, Kent B. Hansen a
?crit?:
> Hi all.
Hi
> I'm trying to use Samba to replace an old Windows print server, and
> everything works just like a charm - almost...
>
> There's one thing, which prevents my organization from accepting this
new
> printerserver, and that is that I'm unable to activate and save the
"Enable
> advanced printing features" setting for the printers - this is used to
> allow for printing multiple pages onto one page etc. Samba doesn't give
any
> errors, the settings is just cleared the next time I open the
> preferences...
I have the same problem with a Xerox DocuColor 1632. When the driver is 
downloaded by the client from the print$ share, I can't activate the
finition
module of the printer. 
If I install the printer driver locally "by hand", it works...
I'm still looking for a solution...
> I'm using cups for the backend, and all printers are configured as raw
> queues. The click'n'print feature are working nicely, and I can
change and
> save all other settings beside this crusual "advanced features"
setting (so
> it doesn't seem like a persission problem).
Same configuration...

I hope someone can help us :-)


Pierre Dinh-van

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Hi,

As far as my understanding goes, the EMF is more of a data type support for
printing. In Samba's case, this will never hold good, since it is always
defaulted to the RAW data type.

The "Enable Advanced printing features" is more to do with the
attributes. The Spool sub system on windows uses certain printer related
structures, whose values are reflected in the printer properties UI. The
"attributes" is one such value, which actually holds the value for the
"Enable Advanced printing features".

I am not sure whether Samba is defaulting this to some value. Will have to get
into the code for that.

But what ever I have noticed with Windows specific printer drivers are that the
attributes typically take a value of 0x00000xxx when the "Enable Advanced
printing features" is selected. But when this is not checked, the value is
0x00001xxx.

I guess you can enable the debug level (set to 10) and specifically search for
the "attributes" in the log and see the value. If this is the case, we
can maybe think on lines of changing that particular entry in the tdb file.

Regards,
Sandy


-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+sandeep.sundaram=wipro.com@lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+sandeep.sundaram=wipro.com@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
Manuel Capinha
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 3:12 PM
To: Pierre Dinh-van
Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Cannot enable "Enable advanced printing features"


Hey.

I've just been bitten by the same problem recently.
What happens is that when you click on the "Enable advanced printer
features" option on windows, what it does is enable EMF support. EMF works
by letting the printer driver embbed some printer commands that will be executed
by the print server. For this to work, the print server must be running on
Windows, since cups+samba don't do EMF (and from what i've gathered this
will _never_ work).

I'm currently investigating if there's some other way to achieve the
n-pages-to-1 print option under the cups+samba combo... this will have to go
through some sort of filter on the cups backend but all of this is still a
sketch in my head..

Hope this helps.


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:22:20 +0200, Pierre Dinh-van <pierre@tuxfamily.org>
wrote:
> Le mardi 28 Septembre 2004 11:15, Kent B. Hansen a ?crit :
> > Hi all.
>
> Hi
>
> > I'm trying to use Samba to replace an old Windows print server,
and
> > everything works just like a charm - almost...
> >
> > There's one thing, which prevents my organization from accepting
> > this new printerserver, and that is that I'm unable to activate
and
> > save the "Enable advanced printing features" setting for the
> > printers - this is used to allow for printing multiple pages onto
> > one page etc. Samba doesn't give any errors, the settings is just
> > cleared the next time I open the preferences...
>
> I have the same problem with a Xerox DocuColor 1632. When the driver
> is downloaded by the client from the print$ share, I can't activate
> the finition module of the printer. If I install the printer driver
> locally "by hand", it works... I'm still looking for a
solution...
>
> > I'm using cups for the backend, and all printers are configured as
> > raw queues. The click'n'print feature are working nicely, and
I can
> > change and save all other settings beside this crusual "advanced
> > features" setting (so it doesn't seem like a persission
problem).
>
> Same configuration...
>
> I hope someone can help us :-)
>
> Pierre Dinh-van
>
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