-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> Does anybody share HP Deskjet 6940 and HP Deskjet 6988 off a samba >> server successfully? > > Yes, we have over a dozen HP6940s shared from a Samba/CUPS print server. > >> issue is when my users try to print multiple copies they can not through >> the samba server. > > Yep, never been able to make multiple copies work. Quite frustrating. > >> These printers are hooked directly to the network and >> cups is printing directly to the print through raw queue and using >> sockets. > > Yep, same here. > >> When I did further investigation I found with the driver >> initialized if I click on printing preferences and click Paper\Quality >> Tab I get the following message "Function address 0x77c47efe caused a >> protection fault. (exception code 0xc00000005) The application >> property sheet page(s) may not function properly." > > Yep, but I think *all* print drivers crash in such a manner when used > with a Samba printer server. At least all the HP drivers crash when > accessing advanced features, as do the drivers for Lanier, Ricoh, and > Toshiba document centers.
Ditto for Xerox. Actually, the Xerox drivers used to cause signal 11 in smbd too, but HP relased a patch for the CIFS Server version I'm using. Not sure where/if that was a problem in Samba as well. >> I tried adding the >> driver with default devmode = yes which I have had to use in the past to >> get some HP Deskjet printers to work. > > No, that doesn't help. > > By, "to work" you mean they don't print at all? Ours print just fine > except from certain versions of Acrobat Reader. Just no multiple copies > and the advanced features tab of the printer dialog is inaccessible. > However, neither of those features work with most [all?] printers in a > Samba/CUPS rig. > > There have been innumerable posts around the internet about the multiple > copies issues. I've never found a resolution. > >> I will try to >> install 3.0.28 with a vm session of Hardy ubuntu and see if I get the >> same results. > > You will. > - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3c0zmb+gadEcsb4RAhoQAKCJd2KvEinVgokJ5OFgNR4gTvcuvACfYTLp P8OcM6HbALc70ysUeeuCRxY= =DUH6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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