Ok then. Someone in the comments mentioned that there is a fix which is 
included in Ubuntu 10.04 and also available via PPA for ubuntu 9.10. Whatever 
made you write this, Gijs Molenaar , it is not fixed. It's still not fixed 
within samba if you look at the status of the bug over there at samba 
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6888). However I appreciate your 
actions (to find the upstream original bug description and even do the package 
making!!) - this should have helped a lot of people - but in this case 
unfortunately doesn't --> so please *before* you claim it's fixed - test it . 
Under the conditions which are described in the bug description. Even if the 
samba people say it is. In this case - I repeat - it is not.
Which brings me to a second note: 
Chuck Short  - almost immediately after I filed this bug (as a Samba bug) you 
enhanced it in order to be a Cups bug as well. But why? This confuses the devs, 
this doesn't help anyone. As I described and other people told: It *works* with 
windows clients (32 bit), it works with linux *clients* - heck - it even works 
with Windows 7 if you redirect LPT1 or create a direct IP connector. Which is 
not stable (for Windows specific reasons). But it works for a moment.
It is so overwhelming clear, that this is Samba in the first place. Why CUPS 
then?
If a Cups dev/packager comes and sees what is actually going on... he will turn 
his back, mumbling that this is something for the samba guys.
If a Samba developer comes in he will realize that this is filed under "Cups" - 
so he will say that in the first place the cups guys are responsible. 
And in the end there is the result: Deadlock.
That's why I wont change the hint that "a fix is released"for the "cups"-filed 
version . 
Please read carefully, what Crazydave is writing (I discussed some things with 
him behind the scenes) - he has very precise experiences with this bug and 
above my description he even focuses on automatic driver rollout mechanisms 
which work fine (!!) with Windows 32 Bit Clients - but not with windows 64bit 
clients.

What about SMB2 ? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block --> 
"Microsoft introduced SMB2 with Windows Vista in 2006."). I remember that samba 
had a hard time and needed more than half a year to make Vista 32 bit clients 
speak to printer shares. 
Maybe in 64bit space some parameters of the SMB2 implementation are different. 
This is something for upstream samba tough.

All in all - I am out. I have no time to do further things here. Which is 
because I do not depend on Windows anymore (I had a very new AMD GFX card back 
when I filed the bug, that's why I was on Windows7 with one of my PCs back then 
when I filed the bug).
Good luck to dave and the others figuring this out. 

Maybe someone should compare this to a different Linux (maybe rolling-release 
distros like Arch or Gentoo) which may have a more up to date package of samba 
(and well - cups). Even better: A fresh from SVN sources compiled samba - all 
this to compare things. Just to make sure first of all if this is Ubuntu 
related or upstream related. Right now it feels more upstream related for me.
Again: I do not have the time to check this out.

Now my ending sentence: Gijs - once more - it is great, what you did by
doing all that packaging with all the knowledge necessary collected from
the samba folx. Thanks a bunch and keep the spirit - just tell people
that you *think* that's it and tell them, they should test it to make
sure it really is.

Good luck,
Herr Irrtum!

** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Released => Incomplete

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Samba shared printers not accessible under Vista and Windows7
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