CVS update: samba/source/smbd

Peter Samuelson peter at cadcamlab.org
Tue Jul 25 20:32:19 EST 2000


[Tim Potter <tpot at samba.org>]
> Fix for mounting a printer as a share.  Not that there's anything
> specifically wrong with this, but Samba is fooled by the client into
> thinking the printer is a file share.  Files copied to the share
> gather dust in the spool directory and aren't printed.

Not good.

> This patch has the effect of not allowing printers to be mounted as
> file shares.  Not sure whether this is the correct solution or not.

Does that mean `smbclient' without `-P' will fail?

Why not put magic in loadparm.c to force `printable = true' to imply
`read only = true'?  Or just warn about it in testparm.


Peter




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