-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, "Kätzler, Ralf" wrote:
> I like to use a samba-server as printer-server for about >500 users with > ~ 40 different printers. The client OS is NT4 or XP. The problem I > encountered is that there are printerdrivers out there which use for > different models dlls with the same name but the dlls are not compatible Can you give more details on how you came up with this conclusion? > - great!! - ! So only the last installed printer works flawless, because > the dll for the other model is overwritten during driverinstall. My This is basically a Windows design flaw which driver manufacturers have to very careful with. > question: Is there a tool, which allows save tempering with the *.tdb, > to change the path to the driverfiles or to change the behavior to rpc > "getdriverinfo"? This way it would be possible to create an own > driver-directory-structur and all those printerdriver related problems > are gone... No. Not really, but what you would need to do is to modify the DRIVER_INFO_3 structure to reflect where you placed the files. > Calling the printermanufactor is hopeless. The only answer I got is: > This must be a problem with your OS... thanks for your help. :( Was this HP? If so contact me off list. cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc ISBN 0-672-32269-2 "SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE95iMjIR7qMdg1EfYRAmkWAJ9zynR81D2ZwbabzanjNkun01J3QACfdYAA fIhCGZWa/nmZXLFTXUNvA8U= =9lxJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----