[Samba] Point'n'print support of various printer drivers

[ray klassen]

There are some I've never gotten to work. There's a crash (unhandled exception or something like that) right in the middle of configuring the driver that looked very much to me that it was a call back to the server. Certain Konica-Minolta drivers do this. Any other wisdom out there on this subject would be appreciated. I don't know of a list. 

I may try again, now that my server's up to the latest greatest 3.x...



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From: Roel van Meer <rolek at bokxing.nl>
To: ray klassen <julius_ahenobarbus at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Sent: Mon, 19 April, 2010 0:17:48
Subject: Re: [Samba] Point'n'print support of various printer drivers

ray klassen writes:

> The problem is always when a printer driver makes a call to a windows dll on the server which the linux server can't respond to. Wish the driver developers would brain up...

So you're saying those drivers just cannot work, right?

Is there a list somewhere of drivers that are known (not) to work with samba point'n'print?

Regards,

roel


> ________________________________
> From: Ryan Suarez <ryan.suarez at sheridanc.on.ca>
> To: Roel van Meer <rolek at bokxing.nl>; samba at lists.samba.org
> Sent: Fri, 16 April, 2010 12:03:34
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Point'n'print support of various printer drivers
> 
> Roel van Meer wrote:
>> We're using Point'n'print with different versions of samba (3.3.x, 3.4.x,
>> 3.5.x) and in most cases it works really well. However, there are some
>> printer drivers with which we just cannot get printing to work properly:
>> in these cases not all driver features (like color, duplex or multiple
>> copies) are available.
>> 
>> I was wondering if this is a known inherent problem with some printer drivers, or if this is caused by samba not supporting specific methods or other requirements that these drivers would have.
>> 
>> The reason I'm asking is that I would like to know whether or not it's
>> useful filing bugs for these issues. I already have test setups and I'm
>> willing and able to spend time helping debug these issues, but if this is
>> one of those things that'll just never work it's not really useful
>> bothering anyone with it.
>> 
>> Examples of drivers that we can't get to work properly are the Brother HL4040-CN and various drivers from HP (the bundled Windows drivers for HP printers usually work fine.)
> Great question +1.  All our lexmark drivers work like a charm.
> 
> Xerox drivers are a PITA.  I'm referring to vendor specific drivers, since Windows does not have a bundle for the newest Xerox models we have.  I was also considering filing bug reports for these.
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