[Samba] Samba4 - Printer Drivers install fails
Julien TEHERY
julien.tehery at openevents.fr
Thu Nov 21 14:16:31 UTC 2019
Mandi! Julien TEHERY via samba
> In chel di` si favelave...
>
>> I have a question about printer drivers management in Samba4 (Samba version
>> 4.7.6, Ubuntu 18)
> First, verify that drivers loading work, with another standard printer,
> eg, Apple Color LaserJet for examples.
>
>
> Secondly... driver loading is very 'picky'. Try to:
>
> a) load the driver 2-5 time subsequently, sometime work
Yes i did it soooo many times :)
>
> b) if the driver have some '.cab' file (mostly: multilingual) try to
> unpack (a|your language) .cab and retry.
it's not the case
> c) try different driver (eg: PostScript instead of PCL)
>
> d) load the driver in a windows box, then 'copy' them via RPC:
>
> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/old/Samba3-HOWTO/classicalprinting.html#inst-rpc
> I never used this way, but even if it works, MMC is managed by non
linux admins, so i really intend to make it work through MMC
>
>
> Some drivers are simply 'broken'. There's no way to make it work. ;-(
>
> I hope not ;)
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