[Samba] Problems with SPOOLSS WinNT driver uploads

[Steve Thom]

Adam,

I encountered the same issue. A quick look on Google showed that this is not
unique to Linux either. There is a patch, but it didn't make much
difference.

After fighting is a few days I gave up and set "disable spoolss" to "yes",
and "show add printer wizard" to "no" in the global section. I then deleted
the print$ share, and placed the 9x, NT/2000 and XP drivers in a read-only
share that everyone could access (even guest and bad user).

I commonly do this in 30 client environments. I usually need to visit every
desk anyway, so now I have to install the print drivers manually. Hopefully
this will be solved someday, I don't believe it is a Samba issue per se.
Jerry may want to elaborate on the issue...

One benefit - one 2000/XP/NT user can't hose the printer properties for the
other 2000/XP/NT users (like they can in 2000 server). Everyone has his or
her own drivers, which makes troubleshooting bad print drivers a bit easier.

I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, but it really made my
life easier. I now have no fear of deploying a linux/samba server. Fewer
problems all around.

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Bottchen" <bottchen at us.ibm.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 5:55 PM
Subject: [Samba] Problems with SPOOLSS WinNT driver uploads


>
>       I've been experiencing a problem with the automatic printer driver
> download function described in printer_driver2.html under Samba 2.2.5 on
> Red Hat 7.2.  I believe that I have followed the doc correctly and in fact
> the driver uploads/downloads seem to work if I use a small driver set
(like
> the Apple Laserwriter v23.0) that comes with Windows NT 4.0.
>       The problem is that I cannot seem to set up the printer with it's
> actual driver set "Lexmark Optra T616".  The steps I take to reproduce
are:
>
>       1. Browse to the machine by IP
>       2. Go into the Printers folder
>       3. Right click on the printer and open Properties
>       4. Click the "New Driver" button
>       5. Point it to the INI file for the Lexmark Optra T616 driver set
>
> At that point it appears to copy all of the files over to the print$
share.
> What is does from there seems to change.  Sometimes it hangs for as much
as
> 30 minutes, slowly adding to the samba debug log only stopping when I kill
> smbd.  In other cases it comes back stating that it couldn't switch to the
> new driver and it reverts back to the original settings (nothing).  The
> print$ share on the Samba server does indeed have all of the driver files.
> "enumdrivers" lists the Lexmark Optra T616 driver and "enumprinters" lists
> the printer (testlp) with the driver included.  The smb.conf file is:
>
> [global]
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         map to guest = Bad User
>         keepalive = 30
>         os level = 2
>         kernel oplocks = No
>         printer admin = @ntadmin
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /tmp
>         create mask = 0700
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
>
> [print$]
>         path = /usr/local/samba/printers
>         write list = @ntadmin,root
>
> Log level 1 of the problem:
>
> [2002/08/01 14:29:29, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(651)
>   nt4etr (9.3.131.158) connect to service print$ as user adam (uid=502,
> gid=503) (pid 15383)
> [2002/08/01 14:29:33, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(651)
>   nt4etr (9.3.131.158) connect to service print$ as user adam (uid=502,
> gid=503) (pid 15383)
> [2002/08/01 14:29:33, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(690)
>   nt4etr (9.3.131.158) closed connection to service print$
> [2002/08/01 14:29:33, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(651)
>   nt4etr (9.3.131.158) connect to service print$ as user adam (uid=502,
> gid=503) (pid 15383)
> [2002/08/01 14:29:33, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(690)
>   nt4etr (9.3.131.158) closed connection to service print$
> [2002/08/01 14:29:38, 0] rpc_parse/parse_spoolss.c:spoolss_io_devmode(606)
>   spoolss_io_devmode: Unknown specversion in devicemode [0x6f]
> [2002/08/01 14:29:38, 0] rpc_parse/parse_spoolss.c:spoolss_io_devmode(608)
>   spoolss_io_devmode: please report to samba-technical at samba.org!
> [2002/08/01 14:29:38, 0] rpc_parse/parse_spoolss.c:spoolss_io_devmode(704)
>   spoolss_io_devmode: I've parsed all I know and there is still stuff
left|
> [2002/08/01 14:29:38, 0] rpc_parse/parse_spoolss.c:spoolss_io_devmode(705)
>   spoolss_io_devmode: available_space = [-112], devmode_size = [108]!
> [2002/08/01 14:29:38, 0] rpc_parse/parse_spoolss.c:spoolss_io_devmode(707)
>   spoolss_io_devmode: please report to samba-technical at samba.org!
> [2002/08/01 14:29:38, 0]
> rpc_server/srv_spoolss.c:api_spoolss_open_printer_ex(72)
>   spoolss_io_q_open_printer_ex: unable to unmarshall
> SPOOL_Q_OPEN_PRINTER_EX.
> [2002/08/01 14:29:38, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_rpcTNP(1200)
>   api_rpcTNP: api_spoolss_rpc: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed.
>
> I have a log level 6 also available if it would be helpful.  Any help you
> could offer would be much appreciated.
>
> Adam Bottchen
> bottchen at us.ibm.com
>
>
>
>
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