Re: [Samba] Adding printer stops with Operation could not becompleted
I am still hoping that someone might have an answer to my problem, as stated below. Since my last post I have tried the all windows OS versions bundle driver from HP. It apparently installed, the printer property panel, sharing, additional drivers showed all drivers as installed (X86), but on the server actually only windows2k/Xp was present. In addition any computer which installed the printer now crashed explorer.exe every time a printing operation was tried. So I erased the drivers, and uninstalled the printer in winXP, and tried with default devmode = yes. Now printing doesnt cause crashing, but the printer property in windowsXP still shows all drivers installed, and still the win95/98 drivers are actually not there. I have included my previous post below, FYI. Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen When trying to add the drivers downloaded extracted from HP (lj456ps.inf from lj632en.exe) I get the following message: Unable to install HP LaserJet 5P/5MP Postscript, Windows NT 4.0 or 200, Intel driver. Operation could not be completed. I also tried installing win95/98 drivers. In this case some files are copied but then I get the equivalent of the above message for 95/98. I am adding them from a windows XP machine. I am loggin onto the samba shares with my account which is in the staff group on the server. When I try to change some settings in the properties, like hold mismatched documents I get an access denied error message. Ive set up my smb.conf like this (relevant lines only): [global] printer admin = @staff [print$] path = /var/prndrv guest ok = no browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @staff /var/prndrv looks like this drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:07 W32ALPHA drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:08 W32MIPS drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:08 W32PPC drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 05:18 W32X86 drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 1 20:43 WIN40 and /var/prndrv itself has same ownership/permissions. I am using samba 2.2.5. The host specific log noodless.log (noodless is the win client i use to add the drivers from), shows no error messages. It does give a lot of messages, too much to quote here, but none of them are informative to me. Help would be appreciated Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Adding printer stops with Operation could not becompleted
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Kurt Weiss wrote: Unable to install HP LaserJet 5P/5MP Postscript, Windows NT 4.0 or 200, Intel driver. Operation could not be completed. maybe it's this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;158042 Thank you for answering Kurt. Although the support message didnt match my problem completely I checked the printer spooler service to be certain, but Im afraid it was already running. I hope someone else has a suggestion. Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] server side printers
Hi. Im an admin on a small network with about 100 clients running windows 95, 98, 98SE, windows 2000 and XP. Our server is running samba 2.2.5 and sharing one HP Laserjet 5M/MP. Our current setup works fine, but I am wondering How do I put windows clients drivers on my samba server to eliminate the need for users to choose printer drivers (and to have the windows cd around) when they add the samba shared printers? I am looking for help in creating the samba share whereupon the nessesary files could reside. And for generating the nessecary files, and putting them there. Also, I am wondering about the legality of the process: That is, since my users are residents at my dorm, they have their own private software, and the dorm which is running the server, doesnt have any windows licenses. I could borrow the relevant installation cds to generate the nessesary files, i guess, but would it be legal? I have been googling and reading documentation, but I could only find documentation relevant to versions previous to 2.2.0 and nothing that could help me. Finally, I dont know if I have to subscribe to this list to recieve replies, so please reply to my address rather than to the list. Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Samba server side printer driver, how?
I think my previous message didnt reach the list. Therefor a resend. Hi. Im an admin on a small network with about 100 clients running windows 95, 98, 98SE, windows 2000 and XP. Our server is running samba 2.2.5 and sharing one HP Laserjet 5M/MP. Our current setup works fine, but I am wondering How do I put windows clients drivers on my samba server to eliminate the need for users to choose printer drivers (and to have the windows cd around) when they add the samba shared printers? I am looking for help in creating the samba share whereupon the nessesary files could reside. And for generating the nessecary files, and putting them there. Also, I am wondering about the legality of the process: That is, since my users are residents at my dorm, they have their own private software, and the dorm which is running the server, doesnt have any windows licenses. I could borrow the relevant installation cds to generate the nessesary files, i guess, but would it be legal? I have been googling and reading documentation, but I could only find documentation relevant to versions previous to 2.2.0 and nothing that could help me. Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] server side printers
the samba howto collection covers the print$ stuff accurately for all the 2.2 version and the 3.0 branch too Thank you for your answer Bradley. But Im afraid, that I already looked in the howto collection, and I didnt find information I could use, and gave up on that. I was hoping someone here on the list could lay it out a bit more clearly for me. Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] server side printers
Thanks again for your reply. I did read the part you mention. I did understand how to make the print$ share. The docs are clear on this part. I can now specify my question a bit more: what to do from there on to put the nessecary files in that share? I am not using windows myself, but my users are. The instructions given in the doc you mention seems to be applicable only if you have a NT server from which you want to upload drivers, or? The printer in question is a HP Laserjet 5M, and lpr is used for handling printjobs from samba. Do I need to collect files from windows installation cds and manually copy them to the share? What should I call the folder in which I put drivers for WindowsXP? I assume that I can replace @ntadmin with my own account name, or? And how will the printer installation wizard look to my users afterwards? Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] server side printers
Thank you for your help, so far. the docs are equally clear on this part. Well, maybe if youre an expert, or someone already having experience in doing this with a NT printer server, but not from my point of view. Also I dont think the docs are very clear as to that doing this from a windows client is the ONLY way. But thanks for clearing that up. Another interesting side note is that Windows NT clients do not use the SMB printer share, but rather can print directly to any printer on another Windows NT host using MS-RPC. This of course assumes that the printing client has the necessary privileges on the remote host serving the printer. Does this apply for windowsXP as well? And does it mean that windows will send the print job directly to the printer per default (I dont want that, since I have a printer filter which counts pages and subtracts from the users printer account)? You need to download the driver for the laserjet5m from hp and use the add printer wizard from a client computer (as specified in the docs) Ok. Should this be done from a computer with each type of windows or will doing this from a single computer for instance with windowsXP do? And should I be able to see some files showing up in the folders in print$ after this process? Thanks again Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Adding printer stops with Operation could not be completed
When trying to add the drivers downloaded extracted from HP (lj456ps.inf from lj632en.exe) I get the following message: Unable to install HP LaserJet 5P/5MP Postscript, Windows NT 4.0 or 200, Intel driver. Operation could not be completed. I also tried installing win95/98 drivers. In this case some files are copied but then I get the equivalent of the above message for 95/98. I am adding them from a windows XP machine. I am loggin onto the samba shares with my account which is in the staff group on the server. When I try to change some settings in the properties, like hold mismatched documents I get an access denied error message. Ive set up my smb.conf like this (relevant lines only): [global] printer admin = @staff [print$] path = /var/prndrv guest ok = no browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @staff /var/prndrv looks like this drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:07 W32ALPHA drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:08 W32MIPS drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 03:08 W32PPC drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 2 05:18 W32X86 drwxrwxr-x2 root staff4096 Mar 1 20:43 WIN40 and /var/prndrv itself has same ownership/permissions. I am using samba 2.2.5. The host specific log noodless.log (noodless is the win client i use to add the drivers from), shows no error messages. It does give a lot of messages, too much to quote here, but none of them are informative to me. Help would be appreciated Regards Tor Bechmann Sorensen -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
