I wrote: > I tried to install the drivers on the server, following exactly the > instructions in htmldocs/printer_driver2.html and "Setting drivers for > existing printers". It _seemed_ to work, but when all the files had been > copied to [print$], an error message said something like "It was > impossible to switch to the new configuration. The original > configuration is restored".
For completeness, I wanted to add my smb.conf, and looking closer at it I found the reason: [printers] ... use client driver = yes I had put that there months ago after unsuccesful experiments with server-stored drivers, as an attempt to get back. No I've deleted this entry, and the driver installation worked (though it brought the client that I used for this to a _very_ busy state. It took minutes until it shut down, but this seems to be a problem of this particular client. But also on a different client: The bidirectional checkbox is unchecked both in Start-Settings-Printers-Properties of Epson880 and in Network Neighborhood-sugar-Printers-Properties of Epson880. However, the communication error message is still displayed, and it doesn't print. And everything gets very slow once this printer has been "touched" after a reboot. Well, know in the end my smb.conf (without the file shares): [global] workgroup = seckler domain logons = yes server string = sugar logon home = logon path = logon script = %U.bat domain admin group = @wsadmin root printer admin = @wsadmin add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --conf /etc/adduser.smbmachine.conf --home /dev/null --no-create-home --gecos "Machine Trust Account" --disabled-password --force-badname %u #printing printing = cups printcap name = cups load printers = yes # security security = user guest account = nobody encrypt passwords = yes include = /etc/samba/hosts_allow # this file consists of a list of IP-adresses separated by ', \ NEWLINE' # browsing os level = 64 local master = yes preferred master = yes domain master = yes remote announce = 141.89.201.255 # wins-support: wins support = yes name resolve order = lmhosts wins hosts bcast debug level = 3 log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 # compatibility client code page = 850 character set = ISO8859-1 [netlogon] path = /var/export/smblogon guest ok = no writeable = no [print$] path = /usr/local/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @wsadmin,root [printers] printable = yes browseable = yes path = /var/spool/samba/print guest ok = no writeable = no create mode = 0766 bye, Frank -- Frank Fürst, physikalische Biochemie, Universität Potsdam, Germany Tel.: +49-331-977-5244 Fax: +49-331-977-5062 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba