[Samba] Print properties are not saved

[Alessandro Dentella]

Please, what should I check to understand why XP is not able to save
driver on the server?

sandro


On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:12:11PM +0100, Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm struggling to get a laser color printer working correctly. At first I
> wasn't able to save print properties with Ubuntu 10.04. As I read of a bug
> [1] that affected samba 3.4 up to 3.5.8 I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 and samba
> 3.6.3. Now I'm not even able to upload drivers in the way I always did as
> described in [2] and [3] (Italian).
> 
> 
> My conf::
> 
>   [printers]
>       comment = All Printers
>       path = /var/spool/samba
>       guest ok = Yes
>       printable = Yes
>       browseable = No
> 
>   [print$]
>       comment = Printer Drivers
>       path = /var/lib/samba/printers
>       read only = yes
>       write list = @"Domain Admins", root, administrator
>       guest ok = Yes
> 
> I double checked every single point I understand. I operate ad user
> administrator that is a Domain Admin that CAN write in
> /var/lib/samba/printers but when I try to upload the driver from an XP
> client I get:
> 
>   impossibile copiare hplj4650.CF_
> 
>   Assicurarsi che la posizione del file *qui sotto* sia corretta oppur
>   specificarne un'altra e inserire 'HP Colo... CD' nell'unità scelta
> 
> 
> That sounds like :
> 
>   no way to copy hplib4650.FC_
>   Make sure the posotion of the file belo is correct or specify a different
>   one and insert HP Color drive...
> 
> How can I debug permissions? I don't find any suspicious log, really when I
> get this message I see no log at all in log.smb: does that sound correct?
> 
> Not to mention tat the printer is working correctly under Linux, and my real
> problem is that I can't make windows set A4 page format.
> 
> 
> I'd be willing to make some more trials but I'm running out of ideas...
> 
> 
> thanks in advance
> sandro
> *:-)
>   
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6727
> [2] http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html#id2582657
> [3] http://www.reteisi.org/allegati/netkit/stampanti/README.html
> 
> 
> 
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