Printer administration problem in Samba 2.2.4
Gerald Carter
jerry at samba.org
Fri May 24 10:59:03 GMT 2002
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Samuli A Valo wrote:
>
> I am currently having similar problem. Our enviroment consist of native
> NT4 pdc+bdc and several samba (2.2.4) servers (running under Linux) doing
> actual work as member servers of the domain :)
>
> There are problems with viewing and setting printer properties on the
> server. These problems seems to fall to two cases:
>
> 1. When viewing properties from w2k-machine, following error msg pops up:
> "Printer properties cannot be displayed. Operation could not be
> completed."
>
> This seems to happen only on the printers, which have drivers
> assigned, and not on all of those. This also seems to be
> non-deterministic, ie. it does not happen all the times...
It was an alignment problem. I just fixed this in SAMBA_2_2
and HEAD.
> 2. When properties can be viewed, if any setting from Advanced field are
> changed it'll likely fail with following error msg: "Printer setting
> could not be saved. Operation could not be completed" This does not
> seem to happen on the first try on newly added printer, but on some
> printers this happens every time after that first change. And on some
> printers it happens only from time to time... Strange!
Same issue I think.
cheers, jerry
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