[Samba] APW and Windows 7

Christ Schlacta lists at aarcane.org
Wed Feb 8 10:45:42 MST 2012


Were you careful to install both the 32 and 64 bit printer drivers on 
the samba server?  If you omit the 64 bit drivers, that would explain 
the strange behavior.

On 2/8/2012 07:09, Chris Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Mike Vallabh<mike at waikato.ac.nz>  wrote:
>>   What I haven't figured out (but have managed to work around) is that when
>> you install the driver via APW, it presents a list of Manufacturers and
>> Printer Models.  If I do the above from a Win7 (32-bit) client everything
>> works as you would expect.  If however I do the above from a Win7 (64-bit)
>> client I do not get presented with the Manufacturers/Models window.  Instead
>> the "drivers" windows says "No drivers found for your device".  Does this
>> have something to so with how the Windows Active Directory views \\myprinter
>> as either a 32-bit or 64-bit server when I joined it to the domain?
> Didn't have a local 32 bit client to test with but I can duplicate the
> APW problem with a raw queue and a 64 bit client. I normally would not
> run across this as I use cupsaddsmb to add drivers but decided to
> create a raw print queue and give it a shot. In following the
> instructions at:
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#id2627720
> which I've used successfully many times in the past (with older
> versions of Samba and 32 bit clients) the APW does not provide a
> driver list. If I ignore "Do not click on Yes! Instead, click on No in
> the error dialog." and click on "Yes" the APW will present a driver
> list, but unless things have changed we know method that is incorrect.
>
> Suggest you create a bug report for this.
>
> Also it's been mentioned many times on this list that with a modern
> distro the "socket options = " should not be specified. I don't know
> that distro but you may be hurting performance by using it.
>
> Chris


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