[Samba] New Printers with Samba 3.14 driver upload

[Cyrille Bollu]

samba-bounces+cyrille.bollu=fedasil.be at lists.samba.org a écrit sur 
31/08/2005 10:01:34 :

> Jan Kellerhoff wrote:
> > Hello Everybody,
> > 
> > we got new networkprinters and set them up.
> > They work fine, but driverupload doesn't seem to work.
> > We deleted the drivers used by the printers we had before.
> > My question is should I also delete the .tdb files associated with 
> > printing?
> > I remember driverupload once worked well with the printers we had 
before.
> > 
> > Any advice would be nice.
> > 
> > 
> > Jan Kellerhoff
> 
> Hi Jan!
> 
> The .tdb files contain information about the installed files.
> Samba doesn't have a "self-cleaning" function for tdbs. So you'd better 
> delete at least ntdrivers.tdb, ntprinters.tdb and ntforms.tdb.
> 
> But you haven't mentioned, what exactly the problem is. Uploading new 
> drivers shouldn't be affected be deleting the old driver files...
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Martin
> 

Also what do you mean by "They work fine but drivers upload doesn't seem 
to work"? How could they work fine when driver upload doesn't work?

What kind of printers are they? We currently have drivers upload problems 
with Dell c3000n (and samba v 3.0.4).

Regards,

Cyrille