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As soon as mirrors sync you will find the lastest release of smeserver-subversion in the SME Contribs repository.

The following bugs are fixed in smeserver-subversion-1.4-5:

• bug 3995: Automatically determine MIME type always off
• bug 3996: Modifying repository drops access privileges
• bug 3997: Modifying repository sets GroupsRead value for GroupsRead as well as GroupsWrite property

Open issues:

• bug 2967: Allow to select advertised (sub)domain
• bug 3698: Description field sanity check function incorrect

Please report all wishes, errors or bugs to the bugtracker in the SME Contribs category against the smeserver-subversion.

As soon as mirrors sync you will find the lastest release of smeserver-subversion in the SME Contribs repository.

The following bugs are fixed in smeserver-subversion-1.3-5:

• bug 3694: DESCRIPTION_HAS_INVALID_CHARS is not translated in en-us locale
• bug 3698: (Temporarily) disabled sanity check on repository description

The following new features are available in smeserver-subversion-1.3-5:

• bug 3806: Allow auto-versioning by DAV clients
• bug 3810: Updated swedish translation
• bug 3812: Italian (it) translation
• bug 3813: German (de) translation

Open issues:

• bug 3810: (Updates to the) French (fr) translation
• bug 3814: Spanish translation
• bug 2967: Allow to select advertised (sub)domain

Please report all wishes, errors or bugs to the bugtracker in the SME Contribs category against the smeserver-subversion.

Ever doubted your existence… they do! A very nice practical joke with a ‘mirror’.

First download the Adobe Postscript drivers for Windows from the website of Adobe.

Extract the executable using winrar or another tool than can extract zipped executables.

Copy the files in the WinXP folder to your server and remember where your put them. I created the following directory (/usr/share/cups/drivers/) and put them there.
After you have done that you might have to create a Samba administrator user;

When you have created your Samba administrator user you can copy the files using a command like this where you fill in the correct path and the username and password of your Samba administrator user:

smbclient //localhost/print$ -N -U'username%password' -c \ 
'mkdir W32X86; \ 
put /usr/share/cups/drivers/DEFPRTR2.PPD W32X86/DEFPRTR2.PPD; \ 
put /usr/share/cups/drivers/PS5UI.DLL W32X86/PS5UI.DLL; \ 
put /usr/share/cups/drivers/PSCRIPT5.DLL W32X86/PSCRIPT5.DLL; \ 
put /usr/share/cups/drivers/PSCRIPT.HLP W32X86/PSCRIPT.HLP'

After pressing return it should copy the drivers to the Samba print$ share, which looks something like this:

Domain=[SIMPSONS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.10-1.4E.12.2]
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION making remote directory \W32X86
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/DEFPRTR2.PPD as
\W32X86/DEFPRTR2.PPD (286.4 kb/s) (average 286.4 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/PS5UI.DLL as \W32X86/PS5UI.DLL
(3315.8 kb/s) (average 1656.9 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/PSCRIPT5.DLL as
\W32X86/PSCRIPT5.DLL (3933.6 kb/s) (average 2962.8 kb/s)
putting file /usr/share/cups/drivers/PSCRIPT.HLP as \W32X86/PSCRIPT.HLP
(1210.8 kb/s) (average 2794.1 kb/s)

After that we have to add the copied files to the driver database of Samba. This can be done with the following command (again fill in your username and password for your Samba administrator user).

rpcclient localhost -N -U'username%password' -c 'adddriver "Windows NT x86" \ 
"AdobePPD:PSCRIPT5.DLL:DEFPRTR2.PPD:PS5UI.DLL:PSCRIPT.HLP:NULL:RAW:NULL"'

After hitting return this should put the following message on your screen:

Printer Driver AdobePPD successfully installed.

Now we still need to define the driver for our PDF printer, which I created using the smeserver-cups contrib. This can be done with the following command (again supplying the username and password of your Samba administrator):

rpcclient localhost -N -U'username%password' -c 'setdriver PDF AdobePPD'

If succesfull this should output:

Succesfully set PDF to driver AdobePPD.

Now navigate to your server and right click on the printer. Choose the Connect option and the drivers should now be automatically installed for this printer.

References:

1. Novell’s Cool Solutions: How to Configure Automatic Printer Driver Download by Integrating CUPS and SAMBA
2. Adobe Postscript drivers for Windows

Apache can execute perl (or other cgi like) scripts even on Windows, but when you transfer files tested on a Unix environment to a Windows based installation you will have to modify every first line of each script as this contains the pointer to perl on the system, the so-called shebang line. I recently installed Bugzilla and encountered the following errors in the browser screen:

and in the Apache log files:

[Tue Mar 06 12:54:42 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified.  : couldn't create child process: 720003: relogin.cgi, referer: http://localhost/bugs/
[Tue Mar 06 12:54:42 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified.  : couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program Files/bugzilla-2.22.1/relogin.cgi, referer: http://localhost/bugs/

However there is a workaround, which will make live a lot easier for you.

If you program your scripts to use the default shebang line for unix and linux like systems:

#! /usr/bin/perl -wT

you can use them without modification on Windows based systems if you make sure you have the following registry key implemented on your Windows server, but make sure the last line points to the actual location of the perl executable.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi\Shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI\Command]
@="C:\\Perl\\bin\\perl.exe -T"

Add the above contents to a plain text file and save it using a filename with the extension .reg. After saving double click on it and confirm that you want it added to the registry. After that your Apache should be able to execute perl scripts without complaining, or you could download the registry file here.