Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (1)!

BobG kiksadiweb at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 15:45:54 PDT 2007


Well, I haven't yet seen a solution to this problem.  Here's the situation I have.

Using the cups cdrom, I installed the cups version and ppds from the cdrom.  I installed some printers to test with.  I configured samba with:

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
   public = yes
   guest ok = yes
   writable = no
   printable = yes

[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /etc/samba/drivers
   browesable = yes
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   write list = root

I downloaded the universal postscript printer driver from:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1500

I'm assuming that unpacking it means running the executable then getting the resulting files from C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3, copied them to /usr/share/cups/drivers.

I also go the cups driver for windows 6.0 from:

http://www.cups.org/windows/software.php?6.0

Having all that in place, and also using security=user in samba, I added root as a samba user, then ran:

smbcupsadd -v -U root -a

I get the following output from this:

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559ced2d4 -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559cefc7e -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559cf1c68 -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559cf39d9 -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559d013ec -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559d0315e -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559d04d55 -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

Unable to copy Windows 2000 printer driver files (2)!
Running command: smbclient ///var/run/cups/cups.sock/print$ -N -A /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d559d071b3 -c 'mkdir W32X86;put /var/spool/cups/tmp/470d5591792ad W32X86/sisd3.ppd;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/ps5ui.dll W32X86/ps5ui.dll;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.hlp W32X86/pscript.hlp;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript.ntf W32X86/pscript.ntf;put /usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll W32X86/pscript5.dll'

This happens whether using Debian or Centos.  I haven't been able to figure it out so I'm asking for any tips.  Thanks much.




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