Hi I suggest you post this patch to samba-technical.
On 5 December 2012 12:02, Frank Lascheit <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm aware that the new level-4 printer drivers are not supported by > Samba. But level-3 drivers, that are used by Windows 7 and earlier, > should also work with Windows 8. > > Unfortunately, if you try to use a level-3 driver from a Windows 8 > client using the point-and-print mechanism, you will always get the > message, that there's no driver available. > > I couldn't find a solution on the web, so I've taken a look into the > sources and network traces. It turns out, that Windows 8 asks for > level-4 drivers, which the Samba server doesn't have. Then, if > available, Samba should offer a level-3 driver with the same name, but > it only searches for level-2 drivers. Am I getting this right? > > I've tried to fix that. Maybe it isn't the right solution, but it works > for me. I'm using Samba-3.5, but it seems to be the same code in 3.6. > > Regards, > > Frank Lascheit > > > -- samba-3.6.9.orig/source3/rpc_server/spoolss/srv_spoolss_nt.c > 2012-10-29 10:05:46.000000000 +0100 > +++ samba-3.6.9/source3/rpc_server/spoolss/srv_spoolss_nt.c 2012-12-05 > 09:54:23.000000000 +0100 > @@ -5531,7 +5531,9 @@ static WERROR construct_printer_driver_i > } > > /* Yes - try again with a WinNT driver. */ > - version = 2; > + /* version = 2; */ > + /* [fl] also try to find a level-3 driver for Windows 8 */ > + version--; > result = winreg_get_driver(mem_ctx, b, > architecture, > pinfo2->drivername, -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
