[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

[Andreas Schneider]

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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