Printer Driver up- and download, with and without CUPS

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Gerald Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
> 
>>* driver upload (from WinNT) takes approx. 6 Minutes to complete
>>
> 
> What driver?
> 

It was a pur Adobe PostScript one (Heidelberg Digimaster 9110), but
having a rather large PPD (~110 kB).

This is down now to 40 seconds since I updated to the latest SuSE-CVS-RPM
made by Lars...

The WinNT client is a PII-300 laptop with 128 MByte RAM, the samba box
a SuSE 7.3 PIII-500 with 512 MByte.

>>* driver download (to different WinNT) takes approx. 5 Minutes 
>>to complete
>>
> 
> That's too long....  Maybe related to the driver you are using.
>
> 
>># Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%secret' -c 'setdriver DigiMaster DigiMaster'
>># cmd = setdriver DigiMaster DigiMaster
>># spoolss_io_devmode: Unknown specversion [0x0]!
>># spoolss_io_devmode: Please report to samba-technical at samba.org
>># spoolss_io_devmode: Unknown specversion [0x0]!
>># spoolss_io_devmode: Please report to samba-technical at samba.org
>># SetPrinter call failed!
>># result was NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>>
> 
> Kurt's email and one of my previous ones crossed in route.  
> This has already been fixed in CVS.

True -- now this last output has changed to:

#Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%root2002' -c 'adddriver 
#"Windows 4.0"
# 
#DigiMaster:ADOBEPS4.DRV:DigiMaster.PPD:NULL:ADOBEPS4.HLP:PSMON.DLL:RAW:ADFONTS.MFM,DEFPRTR2.PPD,ICONLIB.DLL"'
#cmd = adddriver "Windows 4.0"
#"DigiMaster:ADOBEPS4.DRV:DigiMaster.PPD:NULL:ADOBEPS4.HLP:PSMON.DLL:RAW:ADFONTS.MFM,DEFPRTR2.PPD,ICONLIB.DLL"
#Printer Driver DigiMaster successfully installed.
#
#Running command: rpcclient localhost -N -U'root%root2002' -c 'setdriver 
#DigiMaster DigiMaster'
#cmd = setdriver DigiMaster DigiMaster
#Succesfully set DigiMaster to driver DigiMaster.

I am quite happy for now... Everything seems to work as advertised. 
Tommorow I'll do some tests, then write my paper the SambaXP conference
and print it on Sunday to bring to Goettingen, using today's 
achievements... ;-)

Thank you very much, Jerry, Mike, Lars, for your help tonight!

Thank you, Samba Team, for this huge achievement!

Bye,
Kurt