[Samba] Samba 3 and CUPs printer causes explorer to abend

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Nov 16 00:37:16 GMT 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 03:49, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2003 6:52 pm, Orwig, Paul wrote:
> > I am attempting to setup a Samba printserver to replace our Windows
> > Print servers.
> > I have defined a few printers in CUPS, some raw, and some not.
> > When I use the GUi to upload the drivers, The dialog works, however
> > after that is accomplished, any attempt to get the printer properties
> > or to use the printer from my W2K system (cpq0277) causes explorer to
> > ABEND.
> 
> I had this exact problem, in fact, if you attempted to get the printer 
> properties from any application it woud crash the app.  I had to back 
> down to 2.2.8a.  
> 
> I was using Cups 1.1.19, samba 3.0 and also 3.0.1rc1
> 
> Setting up the "point and print" stuff went fine.  After the driver was 
> installed to samba, installing and accessing the printer would crash 
> any windows app.
> 
> There wasn't anything useful in my logs, either.

Jerry fixed a bug in the point-and-print code for 3.0.1pre3, which might
have caused this.

Andrew Bartlett

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