[Samba] samba upgrades deletes printer driver pointers / 3.0.24
to 3.0.28 upgrade, lost printers
Michael Heydon
michaelh at jaswin.com.au
Mon Dec 17 22:59:35 GMT 2007
Dale Schroeder wrote:
> 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 don't think the problems are quite the same (the printers that remain
on my system still have fully functional drivers). Although I guess
damage to the printers database could be responsible in both cases.
> 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.
>
My cups and the new samba package were all official slackware releases
(in most cases slackware packages are extremely close to the official
releases, customisations are kept to a minimum), my old samba .24
package was from source. I don't believe the custom package had any
printer related tweaks (is it possible to find the configure options
used to generate a binary?).
I haven't been able to reboot the system, I will give it a try on Friday
and see what happens.
Good luck Dave :)
Thanks
> Dale
>
> Michael Heydon wrote:
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> Dave wrote:
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*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh at jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh at jaswin.com.au>
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