[Samba] Unable to add Point and Print printers to clients with Windows 8.1 and up

Thomas Keppler winfr34k at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 19:57:20 UTC 2023


Hi all,

thank you Stefan for your suggestions. At least the idea with trying a different driver for once seems to have lead me somewhere!

> On 28. Feb 2023, at 09:04, Stefan Kania via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Did you "disable" the the GPO! Normaly you set GPOs to "enable" to set what the GPO should do, here it must be "disabled"

Yep, that's what I did. I did so by setting the value in the Registry myself, just to be extra 100% sure it is what it should be per the article.
Even though it shouldn't make any difference as per my last email -- I was working as a Domain and Local Admin the entire time on purpose to rule this kind of stuff out.

> So maybe you try a standard driver to see if the problem is the driver and not your settings.


This seems to have hit it on the head. When I use one of the Brother or HP drivers inside your bundle, everything works again like nothing was ever wrong...
Matter of fact: It really just works with either driver and really just doesn't with the Sharp one. Like for the other person asking on the mailing list in 2021.

What I find a little suspicious: For any driver I have provided in the past (included the Sharp one) it opened a dialog box where it copied the driver onto the client's disk.
It didn't do that for either driver you provided and said "Downloading driver..." instead without additional dialog boxes. Now, could this mean it installed drivers from Windows Update instead? "Downloading" for "copying over the network" sounds a little dated, even for Microsoft. Maybe I'm just being too paranoid and grasping at straws... "It's doing my head in!" :-)

Does the Sharp driver specifically not working narrow it down to some other GPO and/or setting I can take so that my newer clients will accept it? Keep in mind: The environment in use right now is using Windows 7 and that continues to work like a charm - A very insecure, outdated charm, of course. Replacing the MFC soon is also out of the question.

Any other suggestion?

Thanks for all the help so far.

--
Sincerely
Thomas Keppler




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