The problem is always when a printer driver makes a call to a windows dll on the server which the linux server can't respond to. Wish the driver developers would brain up...
________________________________ From: Ryan Suarez <[email protected]> To: Roel van Meer <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Fri, 16 April, 2010 12:03:34 Subject: Re: [Samba] Point'n'print support of various printer drivers Roel van Meer wrote: > We're using Point'n'print with different versions of samba (3.3.x, 3.4.x, > 3.5.x) and in most cases it works really well. However, there are some > printer drivers with which we just cannot get printing to work properly: in > these cases not all driver features (like color, duplex or multiple copies) > are available. > > I was wondering if this is a known inherent problem with some printer > drivers, or if this is caused by samba not supporting specific methods or > other requirements that these drivers would have. > > The reason I'm asking is that I would like to know whether or not it's useful > filing bugs for these issues. I already have test setups and I'm willing and > able to spend time helping debug these issues, but if this is one of those > things that'll just never work it's not really useful bothering anyone with > it. > > Examples of drivers that we can't get to work properly are the Brother > HL4040-CN and various drivers from HP (the bundled Windows drivers for HP > printers usually work fine.) Great question +1. All our lexmark drivers work like a charm. Xerox drivers are a PITA. I'm referring to vendor specific drivers, since Windows does not have a bundle for the newest Xerox models we have. I was also considering filing bug reports for these. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
