[Samba] APW: Print Driver not Storing for some printer types
Hi there. I'm using samba 3.0.2 as a printserver. It's been working for ages and I upgraded it the other day to see if it fixed this problem I've been having trying to get printer drivers stored onto the server. The mechanism for uploading drivers seems to be working fine but I've recently got two new printers: an HP laserjet4200tn and OKI c5100. No matter what I seem to try, trying to get the APW to install these drivers to the print$ share on the sambe printserver fails. The error messages is: Unable to install HP LaserJet 4200 PS, Windows 2000 or XP, Intel Driver. Operation could not be completed. On pressing the New Driver button, it runs through the wizard OK then gives this error on Finish. What bugs me most is that It's working fine for my old printer drivers (mostly a variety of HP laserjets). I've reinstalled the drivers to check but these two refuse to work. I'm trying to install the latest PS drivers from the internet if that helps anyone. Two other things I have noticed which may be related to the problem: 1. On an XP machine, in the print$/w32x86 dir, there seems to be other folders created (hewletpackard. and oki_data_...). Could the drivers be trying to install not to the 3 folder as I think they should? 2. On the servers print$ share int the w32x86 folder it seems to try to have creates a temporary folder __SKIP_ when the error message is popped up. This folder is empty by the way. I'm thinking it's the drivers at fault. Or perhaps there's a new driver format that Samba doesn't support yet? Any help on my problem would be appreciated. Thanks -- Paul Cochrane (paul.m.cochrane (***at***) tuht.scot.nhs.uk) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Borland Paradox Databases on a samba share
On 20 Jan 2003 at 15:49, Nose Bear wrote: i tryed to use samba to share a paradox database which comes with a special trade programs. On a novell server it works fine. But on the samba share I get a corrupted database after some minutes of multi user access. I've tryed some entries in the smb.conf and I think a have a very conservative setting now. Oplocks for the share need to be turned off. It will work OK for a while with oplocks on then corrupt eventually. I heared of somebody who uses samba successfully with the same application but with a newer linux. I work with suse 6.4 and samba 2.0.6 . May I hope to solve the problem with a linux update? I read in he samba release notes about several bugfixes in locking ... but does it solve my problem? I'd update samba to the latest version. It's really easy to compile from source if you cannot get a packaged version for the older distribution. 95 clients also have a bugged vredir and vnetsup. These need updated to work properly. These should be available from microsoft. I also disable the network read write caching on 95 clients. I have a method which is called on starting up the database to ensure these settings are set. - Paul Cochrane | Tayside Orthopaedic | | Rehabilitation Technology Centre| = |-| | Ninewells Hospital Med. School| | Dundee, Scotland, UK. | | DD1 9SY.| | Phone: +44 1382 496284 | | Fax:+44 1382 496322 | | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Custom smbprint script for testing
Hello there, I've produced a modified version of the smbprint script that comes with the samba source. The script is aimed to retry sending the print job if the windows machine is switched off at the time of printing (samba seems to just drop the print job after a period of time if the machine is off). This script will mail you to tell you the machine isn't turned on yet and if you go along and turn the machine on, when it boots up, the job should print. The script also figures out if it's printing to an XP machine which needs a user/password to print (on my network) and supplies the appropriate data. See the script code in the attachment for further info. This script has been running for the last 3 months or so on my printserver without any problems and I thought I'd pass it on for anyone to test and/or use. - Paul Cochrane | Tayside Orthopaedic | | Rehabilitation Technology Centre| = |-| | Ninewells Hospital Med. School| | Dundee, Scotland, UK. | | DD1 9SY.| | Phone: +44 1382 496284 | | Fax:+44 1382 496322 | | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - smbprint.wait Description: Binary data
[Samba] Ext3, Lots of Files, Slow performance
A recent thread has hinted on slow performances on large directories (thousands of entries) on the ext2/3 filesystem. I appreciate that the answer is to store these directories on a different file system or to reorganise the way you store the files into subdirectories. I'd just like to ask has anyone done any tests to determine approximately what the limit is before slowdown occurs. I'd guess it's maybe dependent on the speed of the CPU, memory and disk subsystem but was wondering if anyone has any hard facts. - Paul Cochrane | Tayside Orthopaedic | | Rehabilitation Technology Centre| = |-| | Ninewells Hospital Med. School| | Dundee, Scotland, UK. | | DD1 9SY.| | Phone: +44 1382 496284 | | Fax:+44 1382 496322 | | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] XP clients inexplicable pauses
On 22 Oct 2002 at 21:26, Jeremy Wohl wrote: I recently upgraded two client/server pairs to WinXP and Samba 2.2.6 (on Linux). Browsing mounted shares causes hangs when right-clicking or double-clicking/ launching files -- about 15 seconds. During this, precious little network activity is occuring. Something is hanging, locking, sleeping. Do you have the netware client installed on these machines? This causes timeout problems when right clicking in explorer. There are workarounds to relieve this problem which I can explain if this is the case. Paul - Paul Cochrane | Tayside Orthopaedic | | Rehabilitation Technology Centre| = |-| | Ninewells Hospital Med. School| | Dundee, Scotland, UK. | | DD1 9SY.| | Phone: +44 1382 496284 | | Fax:+44 1382 496322 | | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Oplocks, Oplock_break and request Oplock_break
;-- Doris: win98 [2002/05/10 11:09:24, 0] smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(277) Invalid key 283 given to dptr_close [2002/05/10 11:09:24, 0] smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(277) Invalid key 265 given to dptr_close [2002/05/10 11:09:24, 0] smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(277) Invalid key 281 given to dptr_close [2002/05/10 11:09:24, 0] smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(277) Invalid key 271 given to dptr_close followed by lots of similar lines.. - Paul Cochrane | Tayside Orthopaedic | | Rehabilitation Technology Centre| = |-| | Ninewells Hospital Med. School| | Dundee, Scotland, UK. | | DD1 9SY.| | Phone: +44 1382 496284 | | Fax:+44 1382 496322 | | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
