samba - May 2010 - Windows 7 64-bit drivers

Hello All, I'm having trouble with 64 bit Xerox drivers on my Samba server.

The below quote if from another thread which I have followed but on the
client Win 7 64 bit machine, I get an error:

"The specified location does not contain the driver for the Xerox
WorkCentre
7675 rev2 PS for the requested processor architecture."

Trying to add the driver from at 64 bit client first also fails with the
same error.

For sure the driver is x64, I can install the driver locally on the Win 7 64
client.

I have HP 64 bit drivers installed, no problem ... any ideas?

Thanks
Greg


We support 32bit and 64bit XP, Vista, and Windows7.  We upload drivers

from a windows client instead of using cupsaddsmb since we found this

method solved alot of printing issues when we were using cupsaddsmb:

http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#id2627720

> With this method there are a few options to support both 32 and 64bit
clients, based on how point and print works.

> 1. Upload a driver from the Windows 32bit client's local driver store.
When a 64bit client tries to connect, point and print does not find the

appropriate driver on the samba server.  Instead, it will attempt to

find and install an appropriate driver with the correct filename from

it's own local driver store or Windows Update.  This is our preferred

method since it's easier to manage.

> 2. For cases where drivers for a specific printer model is not available
in a clients local driver store then we upload both 32bit and 64bit

drivers to the samba queue.  First we upload 32bit then go into the

driver properties, into the 'Sharing' tab, and click on 'Additional

Drivers' to install 64bit drivers from a 64bit client.

> Check out the Windows Point and Print Technical Overview for reference
http://bit.ly/cGpqn8

> hope this helps,
Ryan

Greg Saunders wrote:
> The below quote if from another thread which I have followed but on the
> client Win 7 64 bit machine, I get an error:
>
> "The specified location does not contain the driver for the Xerox
WorkCentre
> 7675 rev2 PS for the requested processor architecture."
>   
Xerox drivers do not play nice with samba (alot of users on this list 
can attest to this).  Try different models until you find one that 
works.  We have Xerox WorkCentre 7346's here and ended up using Xerox 
WorkCentre 7242 drivers instead.

Of course, it still had issues after uploading.  Fortunately, someone 
from this list found this nice tool:
http://bit.ly/czNvub

This fixed up our Xerox driver issues.  Unfortunately, it requires a 
valid Cisco support agreement :(

I'm not sure if there's an equivalent free tool out there available...