samba - Dec 2007 - Driver installation fails on samba server

Dear list,

since days I am trying to install several HP-drivers from a XP client on 
the samba server (DC) - 3.0.28 on OpenSuse 10.3.

Installing the drivers contained in Windows works.
Installing drivers from a disk (e.g. for a Designet 4000) does NOT work. 
It says "Driver for Designjet .... could not be installed. Access 
denied". It is however creating a directory under W32X86 named 
__SKIP_xxxx (where xxxx are different figures e.g. 00DA).

Linux-permissions at W32X86 are set to 777.
The directory named __SKIP_xxxx  is created as "drwxrwxr-x root ntadmin 
....", so as admin root there should be sufficient access.

Even log level 10 didn't show me any hints. I changed to different 
smb.conf settings, etc.

Did anybody of you experience a similar problem and has a solution?

Best

Joachim

Joachim Kieferle wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> since days I am trying to install several HP-drivers from a XP client 
> on the samba server (DC) - 3.0.28 on OpenSuse 10.3.
>
> Installing the drivers contained in Windows works.
> Installing drivers from a disk (e.g. for a Designet 4000) does NOT 
> work. It says "Driver for Designjet .... could not be installed. 
> Access denied". It is however creating a directory under W32X86 named 
> __SKIP_xxxx (where xxxx are different figures e.g. 00DA).
>
> Linux-permissions at W32X86 are set to 777.
> The directory named __SKIP_xxxx  is created as "drwxrwxr-x root 
> ntadmin ....", so as admin root there should be sufficient access.
>
> Even log level 10 didn't show me any hints. I changed to different 
> smb.conf settings, etc.
>
> Did anybody of you experience a similar problem and has a solution?
Hi list,

there were no answers to my question from the list, however in the 
meantime I was successful and found a solution. So here I'll document it 
for other users:

- We migrated the Samba server (with existing LDAP-accounts) to a new 
server.
- After that migration "domain root" didn't have full access to
the
local clients any more (we'll have to work on that problem).
- As a workaround I logged on to the XP-client as administrator, 
connected as "domain root" and so was able to install the drivers on
the
server.
- Logging on to the XP-client as domain root was necessary to assign the 
drivers to the printers.
Hope this description will help anybody in the future from investing 
days to find a possible solution.

Best

Joachim

Hello,

I've seen several situations, that might match your problem:

- W32X86\3 is not writable for you (unlikely as you are able to install 
drivers)
- There really exist drivers, which create the files in the temporary 
directory, but mark them as non readable (sick)
- Your driver might contains files, that are allready installed and you 
are not allowed to replace the previous installed files

You might try to access your server by Start->Run -> \\samba-server\print$

Then you should see the W32X86 directory. Change into it and the 
__SKIP_xxxx directory and mark all files.
Copy them into the W32X86 directory.

If you experience any problems, this might help you to find out where 
the problem lies. If not, you could try to install the driver again and 
will - hopefully - succeed as there are no files, that has to be moved 
to the driver directory.

Hope it helps,

Martin

Joachim Kieferle schrieb:
> Dear list,
> 
> since days I am trying to install several HP-drivers from a XP client on 
> the samba server (DC) - 3.0.28 on OpenSuse 10.3.
> 
> Installing the drivers contained in Windows works.
> Installing drivers from a disk (e.g. for a Designet 4000) does NOT work. 
> It says "Driver for Designjet .... could not be installed. Access 
> denied". It is however creating a directory under W32X86 named 
> __SKIP_xxxx (where xxxx are different figures e.g. 00DA).
> 
> Linux-permissions at W32X86 are set to 777.
> The directory named __SKIP_xxxx  is created as "drwxrwxr-x root
ntadmin
> ....", so as admin root there should be sufficient access.
> 
> Even log level 10 didn't show me any hints. I changed to different 
> smb.conf settings, etc.
> 
> Did anybody of you experience a similar problem and has a solution?
> 
> Best
> 
> Joachim