Hi, I've also got problems downloading drivers from samba to a windows client.
I'm running Debian Samba 3.0.7-1, and Cupssys 1.1.20final My Windows Client is a Win2KPro. I succesfully installed my printers with Cups and they work fine under Linux, and from remote cups clients. I've been trying to follow the samba docs on serving postscript drivers for cups from the print share in section: http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/CUPS-printing.html#id2563178 I run cupsaddsmb, it seems to work fine, and the files show up in /etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/2 which matches my "path = /etc/samba/drivers" line in my smb.conf file. (Full listing below). Typical cupsaddsmb output is: ----------------------------------------------------------- cupsaddsmb -v myprinter Password for root required to access localhost via SAMBA: Running command: smbclient //localhost/print\$ -N -U'root%secret' -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/4179785a142d2 W32X86/myprinter.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/cupsdrv5.dll W32X86/cupsdrv5.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/cupsui5.dll W32X86/cupsui5.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/cups5.hlp W32X86/cups5.hlp' Domain=[HOUSE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.7-Debian] NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION making remote directory \W32X86 putting file /var/spool/cups/tmp/4179785a142d2 as \W32X86/myprinter.ppd (6592.7 kb/s) (average 6592.8 kb/s) putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/cupsdrv5.dll as \W32X86/cupsdrv5.dll (2606.7 kb/s) (average 2822.1 kb/s) putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/cupsui5.dll as \W32X86/cupsui5.dll (6699.8 kb/s) (average 3689.9 kb/s) putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/cups5.hlp as \W32X86/cups5.hlp (4633.3 kb/s) (average 3709.3 kb/s) Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%secret' -c 'adddriver "Windows NT x86" "myprinter:cupsdrv5.dll:myprinter.ppd:cupsui5.dll:cups5.hlp:NULL:RAW:NULL"' Printer Driver myprinter successfully installed. Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%secret' -c 'setdriver myprinter myprinter' Succesfully set myprinter to driver myprinter. ----------------------------------------------------------- The expected files appeared in /etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/2/ which were: myprinter.ppd* cups5.hlp* cupsdrv5.dll* cupsui5.dll* When I point my win2k client at a networked printer I get these mesages: "The server on which the "myprinter" printer resides does not have the correct printer dirver installed. If you want to install the driver on your local computer, click Ok." Then I get the flashlight dialog box with the title "Connecting to myprinter on houseserv" Lastly I get a box with "The file '*.INF' on (Unknown) is needed" I'm not sure why it says (Unknown) here but It's a home network that mostly uses /etc/hosts files but I don't think windows has these so I have to trust that it can find the network shares using samba, and they do show up just fine. In my Samba log file I get: [2004/10/22 13:15:08, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(800) windoze-6uqevsu (192.168.0.2) couldn't find service ::{2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d} But I'm not sure what this service number relates to. A while back Michael Lueck posted a hand made INF file to work with the adobe universal driver which looks like this: ----------------------------------------------------------- ; PSCRIPT.INF ; ; Michael Lueck, Lueck Data Systems ; Version 1.1 ; This INF is intended to be used with: ; Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6 - English [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" Provider="Adobe" LayoutFile=layout.inf ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Class=Printer [Manufacturer] "Adobe" [Adobe] "AdobePSGenericPostScriptPrinter" = DEFPRTR2.PPD [DEFPRTR2.PPD] CopyFiles=PSCRIPT DataSection=PSCRIPT_DATA [PSCRIPT] DEFPRTR2.PPD PS5UI.DLL PSCRIPT.HLP PSCRIPT.NTF PSCRIPT5.DLL [PSCRIPT_DATA] DriverFile=PSCRIPT5.DLL ConfigFile=PS5UI.DLL HelpFile=PSCRIPT.HLP [DestinationDirs] DefaultDestDir=66000 [ControlFlags] ExcludeFromSelect = 2369 ----------------------------------------------------------- Now I tried to edit this to work with the Cups set of files but I'm not a windows hacker and it still gave me the same message. Maybe one needs to do more than just copying it into /etc/samba/drivers/W32X86/2 and restart samba? I've been searching high and low on how to do this but haven't found too many clues yet. It would be helpfull to know which files windows is looking for exactly. What cryteria does it use to pick INF files? Alternativly I tried to install the Adobe drivers but apparently only the win2k files were placed on my client so the cupsaddsmb complained about the other ADOBE* files not being there. I could install an old win98 on some machine just to get the rest of the those files but it seems like a lot of work just to make cupsaddsmb happy. I sapose I could manually run the commands to do the install, but I'm hopeing for a more general solution. I also tried to unzip the winsteng.exe installer from Adobe but no go. Another suggestion that I tried was to install the universal adobe drivers on the client then share that printer to get them back off, but when I went to click on share and Ok it said: "Printer settings could not be saved. Operation could not be compleated." *Ugh* >From reading this list it seems like other folks are getting this to work, what am I missing? :-) Thanks, Clif Here is my smb.conf file: ----------------------------------------------------------- ;*******************section global***************** [global] panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d printing = cups #printcap name = /etc/printcap printcap name = cups load printers = yes guest account = nobody #map to guest = Bad User map to guest = Bad Password #invalid users = root security = user workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba %v) syslog only = no syslog = 0; socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = smbpasswd guest wins support = no include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast dns proxy = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes unix password sync = false passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . max log size = 1000 obey pam restrictions = yes ;*******************section homes***************** [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 ;*******************section printers***************** [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = False guest ok = yes #use client driver = yes printable = yes public = yes writable = no printer admin = root create mode = 0700 [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers browseable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes write list = root ----------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba