Again: delete printer does not work

[Martin Zielinski]

That are good news!
My delete printer command works fine. The problem is the service-list handled 
by samba.
Just as a suggestion: I'm working on a driver installer for samba.
The method is, to install a remote and a local printer with the driver 
(currently using the rundll32 commands), copy the local registry plus the 
magic _p_f_a_n_t_0_m_ key and delete the printers afterwards.
This should fix several problems with missing registry entries like the 
SPLUserModePrinterDriver-key or the Default Devicemode. For this purpose it 
is not needed to create a printer in the underlying printing subsystem (e.g. 
cups). I think, it would be a good thing to have the possibility, to create a 
temporary printer object without the need for an "addprinter command". 
Usually this command is obsolete, because the command does not receive a 
valid device uri (in case of cups) for the new printer.

Bye,
Martin

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 17:14, Rob Foehl wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Martin Zielinski wrote:
> > I'm still not able to delete printers via rpc calls.
> > I'm using Samba 3.0.10 with jerry's printing patch.
> >
[...]
>
> I've been working on proper cleanups after printers are removed, as part
> of a larger printcap cleanup / overhaul.  I've been specifically
> targetting complete (and safe) removal of printers when they're deleted
> from the underlying print queue (usually CUPS, in my case).
>
> Deleting printers via RPC is not completely handled in all cases in the
> current code, due to the way printcaps are loaded; right now, it'll call
> del_a_printer and then run the command given in the 'deleteprinter
> command' parameter.  Setting the latter to remove the printer from CUPS is
> probably your best bet for now; I'll take a look at doing this more
> consistently in the future.
>
> -Rob

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Martin Zielinski                       mz at seh.de
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