[Samba] Re: Strange Problem with Sharp PCL Printer Drivers

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Thorsten Greeb wrote:

> Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry <at> samba.org> writes:
>  
>> My money would be on a driver bug.  I've seen 
>> instances wheredrivers work with MS servers but fail
>> on Samba boxes due to the fact the the driver doesn't
>> NULL terminate REG_SZ values.  The Windows server just
>> happens to use a different buffer size and zeros the
>> memory before sending the reply.  Could be something
>> similar here.
> 
> Could you give me any hints how to make sure this is 
> a driver bug?

The first thing I do is to test the driver on a remote
Windows print server after unchecking the 'enable advanced
print features' box.  This force the printer to use RAW
printing only.  I've found that some drivers only work
with EMF printing.

Other than that it gets pretty hard to definitely determine
a driver bug in the registry data.  Basically comes down
to comparing bits in the PrinterData registry values between
a Samba printer and a local printer object using the same
driver.




cheers, jerry
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