Hi,
we got a printjob problem with samba V2.2.7 and citrix terminal services
(i.e. metaframe).
Each printjob from the metaframe server spooled on the samba server has got
one of the following ids:
-rwx------ 1 nobody nogroup 864256 May 21 13:10
CitrixICARemoteJob
-rwx------ 1 nobody nogroup 77824 May 21 13:10
CitrixICARemoteJob
-rw------- 1 nobody nogroup 34234 May 28 08:00
CitrixICA-Remote-Job
-rw------- 1 nobody nogroup 0 May 18 10:54
CitrixICARemoteJob
That could cause an undetermined destination printer.
We tried to solve this problem by using the samba preexec-parameter. To
avoid this feature (?) we create for each print job an unique spool
directory (%d = current process id):
root preexec = mkdir -p /var/spool/samba/%d; chmod 700
/var/spool/samba/%d; chown %u: /var/spool/samba/%d
root postexec = rm -rf /var/spool/samba/%d
After updating samba V2.0.6 to samba V2.2.7 we encountered the problem that
samba don't execute the pre-/postexec-command within the printers-section.
Everything works fine within other sections.
>From Citrix we only got the advise to switch to windows nt print services
... :-(
Does anybody know a better idea?
smb.conf:
[global]
...
load printers = yes
lpq cache time = 30
print command = lpr -r -P%p %s
printcap name = /etc/printcap
printing = bsd
...
[printers]
comment = Alle Drucker
browseable = no
printable = yes
public = yes
path = /var/spool/samba/%d
create mode = 0700
lpq command = lpq -P%p
root preexec = mkdir -p /var/spool/samba/%d; chmod 700
/var/spool/samba/%d; chown %u: /var/spool/samba/%d
root postexec = rm -rf /var/spool/samba/%d
Everything we tried with a global pre-/postexec or workaround with print
command failed ... :-(
TIA, Tobias Gerndt
