Re: [Samba] APW and Windows 7
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Mike Vallabh m...@waikato.ac.nz wrote: What I haven't figured out (but have managed to work around) is that when you install the driver via APW, it presents a list of Manufacturers and Printer Models. If I do the above from a Win7 (32-bit) client everything works as you would expect. If however I do the above from a Win7 (64-bit) client I do not get presented with the Manufacturers/Models window. Instead the drivers windows says No drivers found for your device. Does this have something to so with how the Windows Active Directory views \\myprinter as either a 32-bit or 64-bit server when I joined it to the domain? Didn't have a local 32 bit client to test with but I can duplicate the APW problem with a raw queue and a 64 bit client. I normally would not run across this as I use cupsaddsmb to add drivers but decided to create a raw print queue and give it a shot. In following the instructions at: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#id2627720 which I've used successfully many times in the past (with older versions of Samba and 32 bit clients) the APW does not provide a driver list. If I ignore Do not click on Yes! Instead, click on No in the error dialog. and click on Yes the APW will present a driver list, but unless things have changed we know method that is incorrect. Suggest you create a bug report for this. Also it's been mentioned many times on this list that with a modern distro the socket options = should not be specified. I don't know that distro but you may be hurting performance by using it. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] APW and Windows 7
Were you careful to install both the 32 and 64 bit printer drivers on the samba server? If you omit the 64 bit drivers, that would explain the strange behavior. On 2/8/2012 07:09, Chris Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Mike Vallabhm...@waikato.ac.nz wrote: What I haven't figured out (but have managed to work around) is that when you install the driver via APW, it presents a list of Manufacturers and Printer Models. If I do the above from a Win7 (32-bit) client everything works as you would expect. If however I do the above from a Win7 (64-bit) client I do not get presented with the Manufacturers/Models window. Instead the drivers windows says No drivers found for your device. Does this have something to so with how the Windows Active Directory views \\myprinter as either a 32-bit or 64-bit server when I joined it to the domain? Didn't have a local 32 bit client to test with but I can duplicate the APW problem with a raw queue and a 64 bit client. I normally would not run across this as I use cupsaddsmb to add drivers but decided to create a raw print queue and give it a shot. In following the instructions at: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#id2627720 which I've used successfully many times in the past (with older versions of Samba and 32 bit clients) the APW does not provide a driver list. If I ignore Do not click on Yes! Instead, click on No in the error dialog. and click on Yes the APW will present a driver list, but unless things have changed we know method that is incorrect. Suggest you create a bug report for this. Also it's been mentioned many times on this list that with a modern distro the socket options = should not be specified. I don't know that distro but you may be hurting performance by using it. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] APW and Windows 7
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Christ Schlacta li...@aarcane.org wrote: Were you careful to install both the 32 and 64 bit printer drivers on the samba server? I think you're missing the point. Installing the drivers on the Samba server is what we're trying to do :) Using the APW is a known, and documented (see the link in my previous post) method way to accomplish this. Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
