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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