From: Ryan Suarez on
Roel van Meer wrote:
> ray klassen writes:
>
>> The problem is always when a printer driver makes a call to a windows
>> dll on the server which the linux server can't respond to. Wish the
>> driver developers would brain up...
>
> I recently found a tool by Cisco[1] with which you can compare and if
> necessary correct differences between printer driver installations on
> a local windows host and a remote samba host. It took me about 10
> minutes with these tools to get our previously semi-functional Brother
> drivers working like they should.
>
> For the printer in question (a Brother HL-4040CN) it could tell me
> some 61 registry entries were missing on the samba server and it
> kindly corrected that for me.
>
> It's too bad the tool itself is not publicly accessible.
>
> [1]
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/print_utility/tr
> oubleshooting/guide/PrntUtil.html

Wow, this tool was invaluable in helping me get the Xerox 7346 drivers
to work in Samba!

thanks,
Ryan


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