[Samba] Printer settings on 2.2.5

Nicolas Kowalski Nicolas.Kowalski at imag.fr
Tue Oct 15 08:07:00 GMT 2002


"Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org> writes:

> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> We are using a Samba 2.2.5 as a PDC on a Debian GNU/Linux server. This
>> server also handles a few printers, through LPRng. On the Unix side,
>> no problem (duplex, simplex, short-duplex), everything works fine.
>> 
>> I followed the instructions from the howto collection "Printing
>> Support in Samba 2.2.x" to make these printers available on
>> Samba. Most of the described procedure worked well. Win2k/NT
>> workstations have now the ability to download the required drivers.
>> 
>> However, users (then me) noticed that no duplex printing is
>> possible. When Going to Control-Panel->Printers, we can select the
>> Printer properties, then the disposition and finally tell this printer
>> must use duplex printing without problem (as a superuser or as a
>> normal user).
>
> Please retest with 2.2.6rc3.  This is a known bug and fixed in 2.2.6.

I just upgraded to this version, and unfortunately, this does not fix
the problem. 

However, log files have a different error reporting, when a user
connects to a printer :

[2002/10/15 10:01:27, 2] rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:srv_spoolss_receive_message(747)
  srv_spoolss_receive_message: got incorrect message size (17)!
[2002/10/15 10:01:42, 2] rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:srv_spoolss_receive_message(747)
  srv_spoolss_receive_message: got incorrect message size (17)!
[2002/10/15 10:01:53, 2] rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:srv_spoolss_receive_message(747)
  srv_spoolss_receive_message: got incorrect message size (17)!
[2002/10/15 10:02:15, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(329)
  Allowed connection from  (129.88.43.121)
[2002/10/15 10:02:16, 2] rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:find_printer_index_by_hnd(263)
  find_printer_index_by_hnd: Printer handle not found: find_printer_index_by_hnd: Printer handle not found: close_printer_handle: Invalid handle (OTHER:28836:7245)
[2002/10/15 10:02:16, 2] rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:find_printer_index_by_hnd(263)
  find_printer_index_by_hnd: Printer handle not found: find_printer_index_by_hnd: Printer handle not found: close_printer_handle: Invalid handle (OTHER:28836:7245)
[2002/10/15 10:02:21, 2] lib/smbrun.c:smbrun(148)
  Failed to create stdout file descriptor
[2002/10/15 10:02:48, 2] rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:srv_spoolss_receive_message(747)
  srv_spoolss_receive_message: got incorrect message size (17)!
[2002/10/15 10:03:18, 2] rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c:srv_spoolss_receive_message(747)
  srv_spoolss_receive_message: got incorrect message size (17)!


-- 
Nicolas




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