On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, SMITH Gregory C. wrote: > General Questions: > 1. If the printer was already installed on a workstation and the driver is > re-installed should the user re-install the printer?
The client spooler will grab new files as needed from the server. > 2. What could cause the spooler to crash so often when updating drivers? Bad printer drivers, null devmodes, etc... > 3. When a driver is changed or updated on the server I see many > (sometimes up to 15) print events in the workstation system event log > noting drivers being updated but listing the same drivers each time. > Normal? My personal belief is that this is related to our lack of creation timestamps for files. > 4. The ability to delete drivers, forms, etc from Server Properties in a > server's Printers folder is disabled on a Samba server. Is this an > interface that hasn't been implemented yet? It works. Modifying forms as well. Fixed in 2.2.6rc2. You have to be connected as root or a printer admin though. > 5. Many problems seem to occur when the server has multiple versions of > different printer model drivers installed. Should this make any > difference? No. Should be fine. Samba handles 9x/NT/2k/XP drivers all alongside each other. > 6. Related to #4, Cleaning out the Samba-side printer driver environment > seems to be an all-or-nothing proposition. I.e. You have to stop Samba, > delete nt*.tdb and everything under W32X86. Is there a better way? See my comments on #4. Also note that 3.0alpha20 has the DeletePrinterDriverEx() RPC implemente which allows you to remove driver files as well as driver information programatically. cheers, jerry -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
