[Samba] Samaba 2.2.7 and windows printer driver woes

[Robert M. Martel]

Greetings, all,

I have a fresh install of Samba 2.2.7 on a Solaris 9 machine.  Stand alone, not 
part of a domain.  Testing with a stand alone Windows 2000 professional client 
with service pack 3 installed.

I am having problems setting defaults for the installed printer drivers and I 
have been unable to load Win98 drivers to go along with the W2k drivers.

Printers being tested are an HP LJ 4000n  and an HP LJ 8150 using latest 
postscript drivers from HP's website.

When I install the W2K drivers and set the options for each printer, only users 
in the printer admin group see the customized settings.  Normal users only see 
the default settings that the driver originally installed, not the ones I edited 
(such as duplex installed, additional papertrays and output trays, and 
paper/tray assignment.)  The normal users are also unable to alter these 
settings as they are all greyed out.

Attempts at loading the drivers for Win98 either fail right away with a "The 
printer driver you selected is either not compatible with your current version 
of Windows, or it may not be available.  Select a compatible driver from the 
list, or contact your system administrator for help." error message, or proceed 
past the steps for loading the Win98 driver, but then finish with an "Unable to 
Install Intel, Windows 95 or 98 driver.  Operation could not be completed." 
error message.

I am also seeing messages of the form: 
"rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:_spoolss_addform (7180)  _spoolss_addform: denied 
handle permissions" in the smb log for the w2k client I am using.

I have been seeing this problem since 2.2.4, and my print server is still 
running 2.2.3a because that is the most recent version that has worked for us in 
a correct manner.

I've been over the mailing list archives, but not seen an answer to this issue.

So in summary, customized Windows 2k driver settings available only to printer 
admin users.  Normal users only see "stock" settings and cannot change them.  
Unable to load Windows 98 drivers at all.

Is this *supposed* to work in samba versions greater than 2.2.3a?  Repeated 
fresh installs of Samba on the test server have yielded the same results.

Thanks!
-Bob Martel

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