[Samba] Printer driver problem in 3.0.28/31

This occurs with Samba downloaded drivers of an installed printer.

When attempting to view the printer properties you receive the following error:

“Function address 0x2d04193 caused a protection fault. (exception code 0xc0000005) Some or all property page(s) may not be displayed.”

Followed by:

“The ‘<drivername>’ printer driver is not installed on this computer. Some printer properties will not be accessible unless you install the printer driver. Do you want to install the driver now?”


This occurs with the following drivers, all version 61.074.561.43 (5/21/08):
HP LaserJet 5200 PCL5e
HP LaserJet 5200 PCL6
HP LaserJet 5200 PostScript


Anyone see this before?

Cheers,
Bill
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On Tuesday 23 September 2008 07:59:58 am William Jojo wrote:
> Anyone see this before?

While I haven't seen ths specific issue before, it may be part of a class of
issues around drivers setting data associated with the printer instance on
the share. Often called the data blob. When the blob isn't set properly on
the share, drivers can malfunction in strange and unpleasant ways. My
suggestions are:

i. Install the driver locally and use the MS property page for the print
share to load the driver again. Set some of the data properties (eg. font or
duplexer). This may force the blob to get set.

ii. Alternatively, you could change your print architecture to use the
standard MS PostScript driver and Ghostscript to convert the print jobs to
the printer's language (PCL). The PostScript driver appears to avoid blob
related issues. A good description of this works can be found at:
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplane...sm/article.php

Regards,

Mark Gannon

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Hi!

Pleae try:

default devmode = no

in your smb.conf.

You will have to delete your local printer connection and the
corresponding entry in the ntprinters.tdb.

It is the automaticly generated device mode that kills the driver.

Bye,
Martin


William Jojo schrieb:
> This occurs with Samba downloaded drivers of an installed printer.
>
> When attempting to view the printer properties you receive the following error:
>
> “Function address 0x2d04193 caused a protection fault. (exception code 0xc0000005) Some or all property page(s) may not be displayed.”
>
> Followed by:
>
> “The ‘<drivername>’ printer driver is not installed on this computer. Some printer properties will not be accessible unless you install the printer driver. Do you want to install the driver now?”
>
>
> This occurs with the following drivers, all version 61.074.561.43 (5/21/08):
> HP LaserJet 5200 PCL5e
> HP LaserJet 5200 PCL6
> HP LaserJet 5200 PostScript
>
>
> Anyone see this before?
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>


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SEH Computertechnik GmbH www.seh.de

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