[Samba] GetPrinter Level 2 does not get devmode

[Rohit.Wadhwa at tabs.toshiba.com]

Hi all,

I have uploaded the printer drivers succesfully on RedHat Linux/ Samba
2.2.4 server. I can download and print without any problems. But when I do
Windows API call GetPrinter with PRINTER_INFO_2, the devmode in
printer_info is always null. My code looks like

     HANDLE hPrinter=NULL;
     PRINTER_DEFAULTS pDefaults;
     pDefaults.DesiredAccess = PRINTER_ACCESS_USE;
     pDefaults.pDatatype=NULL;
     pDefaults.pDevMode=NULL;
     BOOL b = OpenPrinter(cPrinterName,&hPrinter,&pDefaults);
     if (b)
     {
          LPBYTE printerInfo=NULL;
          DWORD dwNeeded;
          b = GetPrinter(hPrinter,2,NULL,NULL,&dwNeeded);
          printerInfo = (LPBYTE) new BYTE [dwNeeded];
          b = GetPrinter(hPrinter,2,printerInfo,dwNeeded,&dwNeeded);
          if(b)
          {
               PRINTER_INFO_2 * pInfo = (PRINTER_INFO_2 *)printerInfo;
               if(pInfo->pDevMode)
               {
                    if (DMPAPER_A4 == pInfo->pDevMode->dmPaperSize)
                         MessageBox("A4");
               else
                    MessageBox("LT");
               }
               else
                    MessageBox("Devmode is NUll");
          }
          else
               DWORD dwErr = GetLastError();
          delete printerInfo;
          printerInfo = NULL;
     }
     else
          MessageBox("Could not open printer");

     ClosePrinter(hPrinter);
     hPrinter = NULL;

I have checked the dump of nt_printers.tdb by tdbtool and the tdb looks ok.
I can see the devmode properly there. I repeat, I have no problems in
downloading and printing.

My requirement is I need to change some devmode setting of  a printer
depending on some parameters, and these should be visible when the driver
is downloaded to the clients. While working on this, I found that the
devmode returned by samba is null, and hence the driver reverts to the
default devmode values stored in the driver.

Thanks and regards,

Rohit.