[Samba] samba3, network printing, additional problems

Tim Kelley tpk at r00tserverz.net
Sat Nov 1 11:19:29 GMT 2003


On Wednesday 29 October 2003 11:05 am, awesome-dave1 at juno.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 	First of all my thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I'm still
> having an issue getting this network printer going. I'm now getting a
> windows error from explorer.exe, i've checked all the windows system,
> application, and security logs and of course the error is not in
> them. I then turned samba's debug level to 10, reloaded it and tried
> again to access the printer. This error with explorer only occurs
> when i right click on the printer and select properties to add the
> driver. I'd like to use apw but i do need to get this working. Does
> anyone have this particular printer, an hp5550, working in a setting
> like this? I am trying to figure out what specific driver files are
> needed so i can pass them to rpcclient. It looks like the drivers on
> disk are in some kind of compressed form.

I have a similar problem with 3.0 which is unfortunately unresolved ... 
my problem was that after installing the driver through APW, any 
windows application accessing the printer would crash.

Were you able to resolve this?




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