Guest Ralgha Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 I'm trying to set up a printer on my Linux box to be shared through Samba and allow Windows clients to download the drivers from the Linux box. I have it to the point where Windows (XP) will download the drivers, but when I try to view the printer properties, an error box pops up with the following message. "Function address 0x6062c92f caused a protection fault. (exception code 0xc0000005) Some or all property page(s) may not be displayed. I hit "Ok" (the only option), and that's the end of that. No properties ever show up. Trying to print to the printer crashes too. Any ideas? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Not sure if this helps at all, but I found this: http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/printi...g.html#PRINTSMB It goes through basics of setting up printing under Samba. I don't have it set up myself, but see if it helps you at all. Just as a note for clarification, the drivers are installed on the XP box(en) right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ralgha Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 I'm trying to set it up so the drivers can be installed in Windows by downloading them from the samba machine. I have uploaded the drivers to the samba machine from Windows and associated them with the printer. When installing that printer in a Windows machine, Windows does not ask for a driver, it appears to download the driver from the Samba machine, and then adds the printer to my printer list. However, when I try to do anything with that printer, I get the problems I described above. The printer is shared fine, Windows knows it's there, and I can manually chose drivers from Windows to use with the printer and it works, but I would very much like to get it all automated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted July 20, 2003 Report Share Posted July 20, 2003 1)What version of samba are you running? At various points in samba-2.2.x, improvements have been made, so it's usually best to use the latest version. Of course, there are RPMS of the latest release for most recent Mandrake releases available on the samba FTP mirrors. 2)Are you connecting to the printer (when you print) as a user with printer admin rights or not? There were issues with this at one stage (non-printer-admin users would work fine). 3)This has been working for us since 2.2.2 or so, but we mostly have win2k clients (though I think the winxp clients also worked fine). 4)What printer/driver is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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