samba - Dec 2010 - Killed HP LH4000 envelope feeder upgrading Ubuntu 9.04 --> 10.04 LTS

Greetings,

Some time ago I upgraded an Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04 LTS. I am running the distro
packages of Samba, currently 3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2

The upgrades (I had to pass through 9.10 to get to 10.04, but stayed there only
moments) killed the ability to use the envelope feeder on our HP LaserJet 4000
printer.

This evening I decided to purge off all printer related files from our server,
re-upload the drivers, etc... to see if that would help. It did not.

Steps to do the above:

1) Stop Samba

2) Backup files:
/var/lib/samba/ntdrivers.tdb
/var/lib/samba/ntprinters.tdb
/var/lib/samba/ntforms.tdb
/var/cache/samba/printing/printers.tdb
/var/cache/samba/printing/HPLJ4000-PS.tdb
/var/cache/samba/printing/HPLJ4000-PCL6.tdb
/var/cache/samba/printing/HPLJ4000-PCL5e.tdb
/srv/shares/print/* (dir that has the print share for drivers to be uploaded to)

3) Delete said files

4) Restart Samba

5) From a Windows XP Pro workstation, login to the domain with an ID that is a
PrinterAdmin

6) Re-upload drivers

7) Check the check box in the driver for the Envelope feeder.
The check box would NOT stay checked in the PCL-5e or PCL 6 drivers.
The check box DID say checked in the PS driver.

8) Return to test workstation, reinstall the drivers overtop of the drivers
already on the workstation (same version drivers as before, HP has not updated
them recently)

9) Confirm that the PS driver DID have the Envelope Feeder selected

10) Try printing an envelope, printer LCD does indicate that it is going to
print an envelope, however 8.5 x 11 paper is pulled in

Suggestions? TIA!

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

Greetings,

Already when the server was on Ubuntu 9.04, my Ubuntu workstation was having
difficulties printing to the printer via a Samba connection. For example,
Mozilla Thunderbird could print, but Firefox
print jobs got lost to lala land. I found how to do a direct CUPS on the
workstation to CUPS on the server connection, and that cleared all of the
trouble up.

So I thought to see if I could to the same from Windows XP. Turns out MS calls
that "Internet Printing". So after the sample of my printer connection
form my Linux machine, I made three connection to
the CUPS queues, used the same drivers I recently re-published to Samba, and the
Envelope Feeder again works properly.

This is very disappointing that, well I have been working with Samba since 3.0.2
and printing works better in that ancient version than current versions.

I would think that Samba merely acts as a Spooler for Windows clients. Obviously
not!

At least we have a cumbersome work-around to be able to get work done.

Sincerely,

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

Michael Lueck wrote:
> So I thought to see if I could to the same from Windows XP. Turns out MS
calls that "Internet Printing"...
And I have taken the time to blog this solution here:

"HOW-TO: Connect Windows to a CUPS Network Printer"
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/HOW-TO_Connect_Windows_to_a_CUPS_Network_Printer

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/