[Samba] 2.2.4/spools/HP DJ 1120 driver problem

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon May 6 12:28:02 GMT 2002


On Mon, 6 May 2002, Martin Thomas wrote:

> Gerald, if you have some time: download the HP Deskjet 1120 Driver for
> Windows 2000 from your employers Web-Server and try to upload it to a
> Samba 2.2.4 box via APW. You may see some difficulities (at least I
> did). I've used the Drivers from the W2K-CD giving
> /winnt/inf/ntprint.inf when asked for 'have disk', which uploaded
> without error message. Than 'bind' the printer to a W2k Client and try
> to view the properties on the client or in the Servers APW - as soon as
> one client was connected to the printer the properties-Dialog failed.
> Printing did not work either (most of the time).

I'll take a look in the next day or so.  Kind of tied up right now.

> Does not work here, not for 'root' or other printer admins. The button
> [remove] is disabled. I can detach the driver from the printer be
> selecting 'delete' from the drivers context-menu. But rpcclient
> enumdrivers still lists [HP DeskJet 1120C] deldriver "HP Deskjet 1120C"
> failed while deldriver "HP DeskJet 1120C Printer" succeded. Deskjet
> 1120C is still listet. enumprinters does not show the driver after
> deleting it from the context menu.

You can only delete drivers that are not bound to any printer.
Perhaps the driver is still assigned to a printer on your server?











cheers, jerry
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