[Samba] Re: Different printer drivers ...

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> 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).

To add to that, there is very good documentation on this subject in the
manual, so that all of the steps can be done properly (there are
permissions considerations, etc.)

Really, this is the way to do this anyway, because you don't have to go
around updating printer drivers per machine like you would if you have
them locally.

I've not really seen anything to indicate which the original poster is
doing, however, so maybe this is already configured?

>> | 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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