[Bug 482836] Re: Samba shared printers not accessible under Vista and Windows7

crazydave crazy_dave at gmx.at
Fri Jun 18 11:36:31 BST 2010


I will describe my problem:

What I want to do: share CUPS printers with Windows 64Bit Clients (Win XP/2003 and Win 7/2008). The clients should get the printer drivers from the CUPS server. First target is to share the PDF printer.
Installation on Lucid. CUPS Version 1.4.3-1ubuntu1; Samba Version: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3

How the printer gets installed: Open explorer and go to \\printserver\
the right click on the PDF printer and click "connect".

With Windows 32bit clients the printer gets installed and printing a
test page works perfect.

With Windows 64bit clients there are different symptoms:
On Win XP/2003 64bit the printer gets installed. The files ( cups6.ini  cupsps6.dll  cupsui6.dll  PDF.ppd  ps5ui.dll  pscript5.dll  pscript.hlp  pscript.ntf PDF.ppd) show up in the c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\ folder. But right click on the installed printer to enter the "printer settings" brings up "The 'PDF' printer driver is not installed on this computer. Some printer properties will not be accessible unless you install the printer driver. Do you want do install the driver now?" - click on "No" brings up the Printer Properties page but printing a test page is not possible!

On Win 7/2008 64bit clients when I try to right click and choose
"connect" It starts to copy some files and then I get the message
"Windows cannot connect the printer. 0x000000d8". When I search for the
ppd file or cups files on this client - nothing shows up.

Attached you will find the samba.log from the connection of a Win 2008
64bit client.

I'm not sure what causes this problem. Please let me know if you need
more information.

** Attachment added: "log.win2k08_64bitclient"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50534681/log.win2k08_64bitclient

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Samba shared printers not accessible under Vista and Windows7
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