Win XP drivers

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Jan 24 05:39:03 GMT 2002


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Martin Zielinski wrote:

> Hello,
>
> when uploading printer drivers from Win Xp-Pro via the
> "Add Printer Driver Wizard" to my Samba 2.2.2 System
> everything works fine, until a Win9x/Me driver is on the system.
> >From that on, every (for all plattforms) upload results in the error-message,
> that the driverlist could not be rebuild ("driver files possibly corrupted -
> access denied"). Nevertheless the new driver is functional and uploaded
> correctly.
> After removing the Win9x driver from the box, the next upload does not result
> in an error message any more.
> This behaviour does not occur using Win2k as print server
> (Xp->Win2k)  nore when transmitting drivers from a Win2k client to my box.

No idea.  My initial tests made me think that XP acted identical
to 2k wrt to printing.  I'll have to look into it some more.
Can you send me a level 10 debug log of the error?





chau, jerry
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