[cifs-protocol] [REG:116102514847712]: [MS-PAR] Q 2/2 3.1.4.2.9 RpcAsyncGetCorePrinterDrivers (Opnum 64); Where does someone find a copy of CorePrinterDrivers

[Edgar Olougouna]

Andreas,
The list of core printer drivers defined in MS-PAR and MS-RPRN shall be provisioned from drivers installed on the print server. IHVs include the necessary core drivers into their packages. Thus, print server implementers do not need to embed a separate copy of core drivers.
Notwithstanding, core printer driver files are typically refreshed during major Windows releases and shared with IHVs on Microsoft Connect. Unfortunately, due to technical policy, the latest package refreshed around Windows 8 timeframe is no longer accessible.
Incidentally, the print product group is planning to refresh the core driver package for next Windows release and make it available for IHV partners for download on Connect, as done in the past. 
If that works for your schedule, you can get the newest package once released, but again it is not needed for print server implementers.

Thanks,
Edgar

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Schneider [mailto:asn at samba.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 11:54 AM
To: Edgar Olougouna <edgaro at microsoft.com>
Cc: cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org; MSSolve Case Email <casemail at microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [REG:116102514847712]: [MS-PAR] Q 2/2 3.1.4.2.9 RpcAsyncGetCorePrinterDrivers (Opnum 64); Where does someone find a copy of CorePrinterDrivers

On Tuesday, 22 November 2016 06:30:19 CET Edgar Olougouna wrote:
> Andreas,

Hi Edgar,

thanks for the answer.

> A core driver needs to ship as part of a driver package that has a 
> dependency upon it. Based on details in the following references 
> (please read through below), the list of available core drivers on the 
> print server would have been provisioned as a result of driver 
> packages being installed on the server.
> 
> SetupGetInfDriverStoreLocation function 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff552194(v=vs.85).
> aspx The driver store is a trusted location of inbox and third-party 
> driver packages. This means that before a driver can be installed it 
> must first be injected into the driver store, this process is called 
> staging. The driver store is located under C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository.
> Windows keeps a copy of every driver you install in a place called the 
> Driver Store. It is located in 
> "C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository".
> 
> Unidrv.dll and Pscript5.dll can be found in ntprint.inf that is 
> pre-installed on the OS.

Microsoft and also other vendors expect that these files are pre-installed on the OS. As Samba is not running on Microsoft Windows, a system with Samba doesn't have these files pre-installed.
 
> Core File	GUID
> UNIDRV	{D20EA372-DD35-4950-9ED8-A6335AFE79F0}
> PSCRIPT	{D20EA372-DD35-4950-9ED8-A6335AFE79F1}
> PCLXL	{D20EA372-DD35-4950-9ED8-A6335AFE79F2}
> PLOTTER	{D20EA372-DD35-4950-9ED8-A6335AFE79F4}
> XPSDRV	{D20EA372-DD35-4950-9ED8-A6335AFE79F5}

These files including the ntprint.inf file are not available on the Microsoft website. So the only way would be to provide a tool to download them from a Windows Print Server.

Or how can a 3rd-party who implements [MS-PAR] else provide those files?



Best regards,


	Andreas



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