[Samba] Client driver installation

Liutauras Adomaitis liutauras.adomaitis at gmail.com
Thu May 21 06:53:23 GMT 2009


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Gary L. Greene, Jr.
<greeneg at altimatos.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've an OpenSuSE based server installed at work that uses Samba to share out the
> prrinters for our users on the AD that will be replacing our aging Windows 2000
> print server. I'm in the process of getting the printer drivers installed for
> Windows clients. At present, I'm installing the drivers for the RICOH Aficio we
> have. When I run the following command:
>
> printmaster:/var/lib/samba/drivers/W32X86 # rpcclient -U ggreene -c
> "adddriver 'Windows NT x86'
> 'RICOH:RIC641K.DLL:RIC641K.DLL:RIC641U.DLL:RIC641.HLP:NULL:RAW:RIC641K.DLL,RIC641U.DLL,RIC641.HLP,RIC641P.DLL,RIC641C.DLL,RIC641L.DLL,RIC641X.DLL,RIC641S.DLL,RIC641J.DLL,RIC641Q.EXE,RIC641ZU.DLL,RIC641ZK.DLL,RIC641WU.DLL,RIC641WK.DLL,RIC641PI.DLL,RIC641SR.EXE,RIC641CF.DLL,RIC641X.EXE,TrackID.DLL,TIBase64.dll,TIFmtA.dll,RICJC32.dll,JCUI.exe'
> 3" printmaster
>
> I get the following output:
> result was
> WERR_UNKNOWN_PRINTER_DRIVER
>
> With the logging output of the
> printdrivers set to 10, I get the following from the logs:
> [2009/05/20
> 14:51:58,  0] printing/nt_printing.c:move_driver_to_download_area(1931)
>   move_driver_to_download_area: Unable to rename [W32X86/RIC641K.DLL] to
> [W32X86/3/RIC641K.DLL]
>
> Any help would be appreciated as I'm trying to
> get this done ASAP.
>

i was strugling a lot with these things and i'm not an expert, but
what do you have in your [print$] and [printers] shares in your
smb.conf?
look for use client drivers directive


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