Ramon Casares wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
>
>>I have now checked the 25-MB tarball which I have copied to the card and
>>it was corrupted. I also verified with a USB card reader and this way I
>>found out that the problem happened when the file was written onto the
>>card via smbclient. Perhaps you should report another bug to Samba.
>
>
> Ups! You are right.
>
> $ cmp eco.pdf Downloads/eco.pdf
> eco.pdf Downloads/eco.pdf differ: byte 8209, line 76
> $ cmp TETEXDOC.pdf Downloads/TETEXDOC.pdf
> TETEXDOC.pdf Downloads/TETEXDOC.pdf differ: byte 8209, line 50
>
> So the first error is always in byte 8209 (?). Then I tried a 8136 bytes long
> file, and no errors were found. My patch only works with files under 8k. I
> have
> to investigate this, but for the moment I did a:
>
> $ grep -r "cli_smbwrite(" source
>
> The result means that Samba only uses function "cli_smbwrite", which is
> the one that sends "Write" operations instead of "Write and X", in:
>
> source/include/proto.h: the header file
> source/libsmb/clireadwrite.c: where the function is defined
> source/torture/torture.c: where it is tested
>
> So, it is defined, declared, and tested, but not used! Perhaps it is just a
> relic of ancient times and not really mantained.
>
>
>>I would also consider a Samba bug that the device is not accessible via
>>its IP address but only by this cryptic "hp<mac address>" server name.
>>"Normal" SMB servers can be also reached by their IP addresses.
>
>
> It seems to me that HP has implemented only a partial SMB server in the
> printer. This works with a specialy tunned SMB client that HP provides within
> its software. But it will not be possibly a good idea to try to cope from the
> Samba client with such a peculiar SMB server.
>
> Do you know where can I find a technical description of this printer?
>
> Ramon
I think, we should talk with the HPLIP team. I am CCing them now.
Till
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