Hello,
Thanks for your reply. In my case the /etc/samba/drivers area is intact,
the files are still there, all looks good. In the smb.conf file no changes
have been made. I see /var/lib/samba/printing/*.tdb files, yet when i try to
connect to the printer to download the driver i'm informed that the server
does not have the correct driver. Any other suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael Heydon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] samba upgrades deletes printer driver pointers / 3.0.24
to 3.0.28 upgrade, lost printers
Michael / Dave,
Since the two of you are having similar problems, I thought I would
respond to both at the same time. I cannot tell from your messages if
your Samba/CUPS setup is similar to mine or not.
I started experiencing this problem on Debian lenny systems at either
3.0.26a or 3.0.27. It has continued to 3.0.28. In my case, it only
affected systems in which I had compiled CUPS from the sources at
cups.org. On the systems where both packages came from Debian, I have
experienced no problems. On the affected systems, no amount of restarting
samba and CUPS would fix the problem. To bring them back I had to reboot
the system; and in some cases, there was a lag time after the reboot
before the printers reappeared. I do not have an explanation; maybe
someone else can offer one.
Dale
Michael Heydon wrote:
Hi,
I recently upgraded from 3.0.24 to 3.0.28 on my Slackware 11.0 PDC. I
have just noticed several printers have disappeared (they still exist and
work in cups but they do not show up in the share listing on the server
and users who have them set up cannot print).
Most of the printers are still present, the ones the disappeared have
names that are 17 or more characters, the remaining printers all have
names of 15 characters or less. All of the clients are XP Pro SP2.
I found an old mailing list message (2003) mentioning a 13 character
limit when listing shares, however I don't believe this is the cause as
some of the remaining printers have names > 13 characters.
The name length is the only obvious thing that the missing printers have
in common. Is there a known difference between .24 and .28 share
name/printer name handling? and if so is there a simple way to change it
back?
Dave wrote:
Hello,
I'm running a samba and cups combo on a Centos 5.1 machine. It's
acting as a lan print server. I used pointprint to upload drivers to the
samba share so that windows clients could obtain them. This was working
fine until i'm assuming the upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 on centos, when samba was
upgraded. The driver paths are still there, drivers, shares, but the .tdb
files are not. When i try to connect to the printer and download drivers
i'm told that the samba server does not contain the needed drivers. Short
of a reinstall is there a way to recover?
Thanks.
Dave.
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