But I guess the real question is, is there any way to modify the driver distribution that won't cause any trouble that will get the names to be the same, or must I wait for HP to repair the problem?
---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > > When installing drivers on a remote Samba server (ie. Windows NT > > emulation, and perhaps real NT as well), you are able to install printer > > drivers for a printer for various architectures. The requirement, > > however, is that the model string for each driver be the same. However, > > HP has "HP DesignJet 755CM (3198B)" for the Windows 9x driver, and "HP > > DesignJet 755CM(3198B)by HP" for the Windows 2000 model string. I hacked > > the OEMSETUP.INF to make the Win2k model string identical to the '9x > > model string, but apparently this broke the paper sources in your > > driver. I removed the driver, restored the stock Win2k model string > > (with the "by HP") and the driver started working again. > > > > The problem, then, that remains unresolved is that HP has improperly > > labeled one of their drivers. To work properly in an NT environment, one > > needs to be changed and re-released. > > Same thing here. This is a design limitation in the printing system. > there is a single namespace for drivers across all architectures. :-( > > > > > > cheers, jerry > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com > SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org > GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc > "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 v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ > > iD8DBQE/OLO2IR7qMdg1EfYRAjU2AJ9XFJYXJeWtIJ2yvMM/YQTeafnv1QCfaQ08 > NxeEfjkUnYquCeKuos6J4cc= > =ixiZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
