samba - Jan 2016 - Sharing printer with samba on Windows 7 = Error 0x00000057

Hi,

I have the following setup :
- A Linux Debian Jessie server, with cups and samba installed.
- A LAN with Windows clients, mostly Windows Seven (and two XP).

I am trying to share the cups-pdf printer to Windows 7 clients.

At first I wanted to provide printing drivers from Samba, and did a
huge mess in config files, without getting a working configuration on
Windows clients.

So I cleaned up my smb.conf file (see attachment).

I can browse the server using "\\192.168.0.250" from Windows clients
explorer. I see my file share, and the printers.

When I try to add a printer using right click and "connect..." from
the Windows explorer, I get a "Windows can not connect to printer"
error message, with 0x00000057 as error code.

I have searched for this error code : it seem to happen when the
printer has already been installed on the Windows client, and drivers
have become "messy".
But : I get the "0x00000057" error with every Windows Seven client,
even if I didn't mess with it before.

My guess is : I left something about Windows drivers in samba or cups
config, but I can not find where.

I see no error message in logs.

Thanks for any help.

Ok.
I "fixed" this by deleting the printer in CUPS, re-creating it with a
different name, and restarting samba.

2016-01-15 13:42 UTC+01:00, Rémi Bouhl <remibouhl at
gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following setup :
> - A Linux Debian Jessie server, with cups and samba installed.
> - A LAN with Windows clients, mostly Windows Seven (and two XP).
>
> I am trying to share the cups-pdf printer to Windows 7 clients.
>
> At first I wanted to provide printing drivers from Samba, and did a
> huge mess in config files, without getting a working configuration on
> Windows clients.
>
> So I cleaned up my smb.conf file (see attachment).
>
> I can browse the server using "\\192.168.0.250" from Windows
clients
> explorer. I see my file share, and the printers.
>
> When I try to add a printer using right click and "connect..."
from
> the Windows explorer, I get a "Windows can not connect to
printer"
> error message, with 0x00000057 as error code.
>
> I have searched for this error code : it seem to happen when the
> printer has already been installed on the Windows client, and drivers
> have become "messy".
> But : I get the "0x00000057" error with every Windows Seven
client,
> even if I didn't mess with it before.
>
> My guess is : I left something about Windows drivers in samba or cups
> config, but I can not find where.
>
> I see no error message in logs.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>