[Samba] Re: Different printer drivers ...

[Ross S. W. Walker]

ccaldwell at suscom-maine.net wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I've now received private e-mail saying that others have seen
> this problem,
> sent e-mail to this list and received no answers.  That
> ultimately, they
> ended up altering their Windows clients to use LPR instead of Samba.
> Is this really something that a genuine MS Windows server can
> handle and
> Samba cannot?
>
> Does anybody know when these other drivers stopped working
> well and what
> changed?  --Chris

Some drivers expect a PRINT$ share on the Windows server where they
can compare their current version to the version supposedly the
Windows server is running.

I would try and set that up. Also CUPS provides much better
integration then lpd.

PRINT$ tree:

\\MFG-NYC-PRINT1\PRINT$.
├───color
└───w32x86
    └───3
        └───temp

This is off a Win2k3 print server.

If you are supporting Win9X and NT 3-4 clients then you may
want to set it up as:

├───color
├───win
    └───0
└───w32x86
    └───2
    └───3

Copy the Win2k/XP/2003 drivers for B/W into w32x86/3 and
of course the color ones into color (except for Win9X and
NT3/4 where they all go into win/0 for Win9X and
w32x86/2 for NT3/4).

-Ross


> | From: ccaldwell at suscom-maine.net
> | To: samba at lists.samba.org
> | Subject: [Samba] Different printer drivers requesting
> different credentials
> |
> | This is an extenuation of "Non-registry problem:  Slow printing"
> |
> | See:
> |   http://www.brightsands.com/~chris/quick.3.bz2 fast
> printer drivers loglvl=3
> |   http://www.brightsands.com/~chris/slow.3.bz2  slow
> printer drivers loglvl=3
> |   http://www.brightsands.com/~chris/quick.9.bz2 fast
> printer drivers loglvl=9
> |   http://www.brightsands.com/~chris/slow.9.bz2  slow
> printer drivers loglvl=9
> |   http://www.brightsands.com/~chris/smb.conf          the
> smb.conf in use
> |
> | I have a sample Windows XP/SP2 client trying to print through a
> | samba-3.0.24 server as configured in the smb.conf above. 
> When I configure
> | with a Microsoft driver (AGFA-Accuset v52.3), I can add and
> select the
> | printer quickly (see quick.3.bz2 and quick.9.bz2).
> |
> | When I configure with a non Microsoft Driver (HP LaserJet
> 2420 PCL5e), adding
> | and selecting the printer take up to 30 seconds longer than
> the other driver.
> |
> | (after taking acount of different pids and pnums), when I
> diff quick.3
> | and slow.3, I notice things start to get funky:
> |
> | <   Domain=[]  NativeOS=[Windows 2002 Service Pack 2 2600]
> NativeLanMan=[Windows 2002 5.1] PrimaryDomain=[]
> |  ---
> |  >   Domain=[CLIENT]  NativeOS=[Windows 2002 Service Pack 2
> 2600] NativeLanMan=[Windows 2002 5.1] PrimaryDomain=[]
> |  2834c2834
> |  <   sesssetupX:name=[]\[]@[CLIENT_IP]
> |  ---
> |  >   sesssetupX:name=[CLIENT]\[Chris]@[CLIENT_IP]
> |  2916c2916
> |  <   check_ntlm_password:  Checking password for unmapped
> user [FUZZBALL]\[guest]@[CLIENT_IP] with the new password interface
> |  ---
> |  >   check_ntlm_password:  Checking password for unmapped
> user [CLIENT]\[chris]@[CLIENT_IP] with the new password interface
> |
> | (where CLIENT is the name and CLIENT_IP is the IP address
> of the XP client).
> |
> | Since they are using the SAME smb.conf and the same XP
> configuration for
> | EVERYTHING except the driver (and yes, I'm using the same
> printer, just
> | different drivers for it), I'm forced to conclude that the driver is
> | having some effect on the order in which things are tried
> for authentication.
> | In this particular configuration, we're doing guest-only so
> I am asserting
> | that the "quick" is the expected order.
> |
> | Why would some drivers (those not provided by Microsoft?)
> authenticate
> | against the client name with the logged in user?
> |
> | Moreover, since this seems to add 30 seconds to the
> process, is there anyway
> | I can stop it?
> |
> | This is causing MAJOR unhappiness at my site (rioting in
> the streets).
> | Does anybody know what's going on here?
> |
> | (Thanks, Dale for helping me clean up other problems in my
> smb.conf!)  --Chris
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