[Samba] Antwort: Re: Spoolss permissions, NT & XP print driver misery (2.2.2/2.2.3a/2.2.4pre)

[thomas_tiedtke at de.schindler.com]

Hi Jerry,

Thank you for this statement!  ... the problem in the last days/weeks was, 
no infos from the team members!

It is no big problem if something is not working. But, if we are making 
tests and reports bugs/problems and so on ... And no one from the team 
give a answer ! This will make us crazy, too.

You and all of the team members make a great job!

... we will see us in Goettingen!

Regards, Thomas



Gesendet von:   samba-technical-admin at lists.samba.org
An:     Johannes Tyve <johannes.tyve at sgu.se>
Kopie:  llaughridge at kitchenandassociates.com, <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> 
Thema:  Re: Spoolss permissions, NT & XP print driver misery 
(2.2.2/2.2.3a/2.2.4pre)


On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Johannes Tyve wrote:

> Some experiences from our enviroment:
>
> We have about 30 printers, all HP. Our printserver is a Solaris 2.6 box
> with Samba 2.2.2. Printer drivers are uploaded to the server.
>
> All LaserJets are working with WinNT Postscript drivers but not with PCL
> drivers. All DesignJet (Plotter) are working with both PCL and PS
> drivers. No DeskJets are working with drivers installed on server but
> with driver installed locally. All printer drivers uploaded to the
> server are from HP. Some users also uses PS drivers from Adobe. Primary
> our DTP department. They have drivers installed locally.
>
> We tried to use Samba 2.2.3a but that created a day of caos. All printer
> driver information on the server was lost and we had to downgrade to
> 2.2.2 and upload the drivers again to get back on track.
>
> The real downside is that there is noone in the Samba team that replies
> to the diffrent print issues. Other issues has always been handled
> extreamly well by the Samba team

Sorry Johannes.  The printing stuff is enough to drive one crazy. I know
:-)  I'm working about as hard as I can, but am not seeming to make a
dent in number of issues.

I have two issues on my plate (change_id/caching, anonymous
sessetup's/SetPrinter failures) and the onto the printing tdb
upgrade bug.  This will be fixed for 2.2.4.

I'll try to get caught on mail in the day or so and
make up a new bugs list of things that have to fixed wrt
to printing.








cheers, jerry
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