Hello Samba-Team and List-Members,
Having the new Samba 2.2.4 installed I tried to upload all printer drivers for Windows 2000 to the server. For most of the printers (16) everything seems to work (after hacking some inf-files for older Texas-Instruments Postscript printers). With a HP Deskjet 1120 there are still problems. What I've done so far: (1) added a print share for the DJ 1120 in smb.conf (2) installed driver locally on a W2k client for testing (3) printed a testpage - everything ok (4) uploaded the printer-driver from the Windows 2000 Server CD to the server (the printer driver from the HP-Web-Site could not be uploaded because of one file - ecp*.sys? -> PROBLEM) (5) tried to change the printer properties in the Server APW, changes are persistent - well (6) connected a W2k SP2 client to the printer via the local Add-Printer-Wizard and printed a testpage -> o.k. (7) tried to view the printer properties on the client results in a message-box saying: "The printer properties can not be showed. The procedure could not be finished" (translated from german) -> ERROR I'm member of the printer admin group and the upload worked - so this might not be an access-rights problem. (8) tried to view the printer properties in the servers APW and got the same message box -> ERROR (9) detached the printer from all clients (10) went to the Servers APW and tried to show the printer properties. This works on _some_ clients on another client the message box "...properties can not be showed..." comes up again -> ERROR (11) reattached the printer to some clients, again no access to the properties on _all_ clients and the APW for the Samba server There seems to be some kind of locking with this driver that is not noticed with other drivers (mostly HP Laserjets und Xerox/Tektronix Phasers using Postscript Drivers). With this locking printer-admins loose control over the printe since properties can not be viewed/changed as long as there is a clients attached - and there will always be some clients attached because the printer is "mounted" through the startup-script. And even worse, applications which use the properties wont be able to read them and might reject printing to this printer, although MS Word 97 seems to work with the DJ 1120, one can change the paper size. Any solution for this, beside of 'use client driver'? I can send level 10 logs if someone is interested. Thanks, Martin --- Martin THOMAS University of Kaiserslautern, Institute of Environmental Engineering, -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba