I'm having trouble uploading printer drivers using Windows XP's APW. Since I'm not sure where to look for a solution, perhaps someone here can help. I've tried a few different procedures, but I'll only describe one here. 1) browse to the samba server in windows xp 2) double click on "Printers & Faxes" 3) right click on some blank window area and select "Server Properties" 4) click on the drivers tab 5) click on Add... 6) select the driver for the printer in question Once I select the drivers it appears to upload them to the server. However, after the progress bar finishes I get the following error: The drivers list was not refreshed. The driver data may be invalid. Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver. Contact your administrator for help locating and installing a suitable driver. On the samba box, I see the drivers in /var/lib/samba/drivers/X32X86/3 and if I use rpcclient (enumdrivers) it lists the driver there. Yet whenever I go to the above mentioned "server properties" the driver list is empty. Likewise, when I right click on a printer and try to assign this driver to a printer the list is empty. I have also tried right clicking on the printer and adding the driver to the specific printer share, but get the same thing. It always *seems* to work but in the end the driver list is empty on the XP machines. It seems to be a permission problem, but I'm not really sure. If someone has a clue where I can start troubleshooting I'd be grateful. I already tried turning up logging in samba but didn't get much help. I tried a stack trace to see if it was trying to write to a file somewhere but again didn't see anything helpful. Thanks to everyone.. Greg
didnt you see my post before..>1) browse to the samba server in windows xp >2) double click on "Printers & Faxes" >3) right click on some blank window area and select "Server Properties" =>= wrong, right = select a printer queue, right klik and first klik NO !!!>4) click on the drivers tab >5) click on Add... >6) select the driver for the printer in questionthis wil work, almost correct. also make sure that the directory has the correct rights. i have 775 on /home/samba/printer ( my driver location ) and rights Administrator:"Domain Admins" good luck
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Louis van Belle wrote: | didnt you see my post before.. | |> 1) browse to the samba server in windows xp |> 2) double click on "Printers & Faxes" |> 3) right click on some blank window area and |> select "Server Properties" => | = wrong, right = select a printer queue, right | klik and first klik NO !!! Actually the server properties work fine. It does the same action as uploading via the printer properties "New Driver" button but without bind the driver to a specific printer. cheers, jerry ====================================================================Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC09TdIR7qMdg1EfYRAiTaAJ9b/lZqJvBnwrWLw0EmFAUrKEph0wCffMQk 2l1pvcazItEAXIGDwwMDBxI=L55D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Baker wrote: | I'm having trouble uploading printer drivers using Windows | XP's APW. Since I'm not sure where to look for a | solution, perhaps someone here can help. | | I've tried a few different procedures, but I'll only | describe one here. | | 1) browse to the samba server in windows xp | 2) double click on "Printers & Faxes" | 3) right click on some blank window area and select "Server Properties" | 4) click on the drivers tab | 5) click on Add... | 6) select the driver for the printer in question | | Once I select the drivers it appears to upload them to | the server. However, after the progress bar finishes | I get the following error: | | The drivers list was not refreshed. The driver data may be invalid. | Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver. Contact your | administrator for help locating and installing a suitable driver. What version of Samba are you using ? And make sure that you are not using 'security = share' since its not really a supported configuration when it comes to point-n-print. cheers, jerry ====================================================================Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC09V2IR7qMdg1EfYRAiEVAKDTgcmRzqg6PG/Ddgtydkz3HxEDswCdH7bS FN00H8FfBAeXvSDD7p79c+U=O2mj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> didnt you see my post before.. > >> 1) browse to the samba server in windows xp >> 2) double click on "Printers & Faxes" >> 3) right click on some blank window area and select "Server Properties" => > = wrong, > right = select a printer queue, right klik and first klik NO !!!What do you mean "select a printer queue, right klik and first klik NO !!!" ? What do you mean "klik NO" ? Where's "NO" ? If I select a printer queue and right klick, it gives me a range of choices, Open, Connect, Stop printer, Share, Create Link, Delete, Rename and Properties, but there is no "NO". The only choice that would present me with a choice between "Yes" and "No" is if I klick "Delete" and it asks "Are you sure?".
Hi Jerry, Did you receive my logs? Did you get a chance to have a look at it? Best regards, Cyrille "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry@samba.org> 01/08/2005 20:02 A Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu@fedasil.be> cc samba@lists.samba.org Objet Re: [Samba] Problems uploading printer drivers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cyrille, Could you send me a level 10 debug log from smbd for the driver upload and failure? Thanks. cheers, jerry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC7mPJIR7qMdg1EfYRAjrnAKDi9QjMCO+AjHWDklnwu8GZk1ZqqQCguaoN BMSEnZN7zXpJR31VIOFZD/c=O7GC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----