[Samba] Samba, Cups, printer driver download problems

Robert M. Martel bob at urban.csuohio.edu
Mon Oct 28 19:41:02 GMT 2002


I have Samba 2.2.6 complied against Cups 1.1.16 on a Sparc system running 
Solaris 9.  Cups has replaced the stock system V lp spooler on this system 
(original packages removed.)

Cups working from UNIX command line is A-OK.

I have been working on setting up Samba to play nice with cups.  I have 
followed the instructions from both the Cups and Samba websites to set up 
downloading of the generic Adobe postscript drivers to MS Windows PCs and use 
CUPS as a RIP.

So far I have been unable to get the Windows 98 drivers to download to the 
client PC - when adding the printer the client ends up asking the user what type 
of printer is being added.  Driver downloads for W2K work OK.

The relevant lines from a Samba log file seem to be:

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[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 9] printing/nt_printing.c:get_a_printer_2(2702)
  Unpacked printer [ur10] name [\\techops\ur10] running driver [ur10]
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 10] printing/nt_printing.c:get_a_printer(3302)
  get_a_printer: [ur10] level 2 returning WERR_OK
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 10] 
printing/nt_printing.c:get_a_printer_driver_9x_compatible(1825)
  driver key: [DRIVERS/WIN40/0/ur10]
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 8] printing/nt_printing.c:get_a_printer_driver_3(1758)
  get_a_printer_driver_3: [DRIVERS/WIN40/0/ur10]
  info3->name            [ur10]
  info3->datafile        [\print$\WIN40\0\ur10.PPD]
  info3->helpfile        [\print$\WIN40\0\ADOBEPS4.HLP]
  info3->monitorname     [PSMON.DLL]
  info3->defaultdatatype [RAW]
  info3->environment     [Windows 4.0]
  info3->driverpath      [\print$\WIN40\0\ADOBEPS4.DRV]
  info3->configfile      []
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 10] smbd/lanman.c:get_printerdrivernumber(799)
  9x compatable driver line for [ur10]: 
[ADOBEPS4.DRV:ur10.PPD:ADOBEPS4.HLP:PSMON.DLL:RAW:]
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 3] smbd/lanman.c:get_printerdrivernumber(836)
  Can't determine number of printer driver files
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 3] smbd/lanman.c:api_DosPrintQGetInfo(918)
  api_DosPrintQGetInfo: Driver files count: 0
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 10] printing/nt_printing.c:get_a_printer(3277)
  get_a_printer: [ur10] level 2
[2002/10/28 14:17:46, 6] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_debug(60)
      000000 sec_io_desc_buf nt_printing_getsec

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Cupsaddsmb ran without errors and the WIN40 subdirectory is populated with 
files.


Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks,
Bob Martel
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