Gross hack

[Tim Winders]

Well, I tried this on my system (Digital Unix 4.0D) with NT WS4sp4 and
receive the same "printer name is invalid" error...

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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> All,
> 
> 	I have just committed a *GROSS* and *DISGUSTING*
> hack to the SAMBA_2_0 branch that just might make things
> easier for people adding printers from NT :-).
> 
> The problem :
> 
> Now that Samba 2.0 claims to support NT SMB requests,
> then NT assumes that it supports *all* the NT semantics,
> including the \\SPOOLSS pipe.
> 
> NT can still add printers from downlevel (Win95) printer servers
> however, so there has to be a fallback mechanism in the
> NT code. The problem was that with the 2.0 code NT wasn't
> using that fallback mechanism and would always say "The
> Printer Name is invalid" when trying to add a printer
> from a Samba 2.0 server.
> 
> The real solution:
> ------------------
> Jean-Francois needs to check in his \\SPOOLSS code
> into the HEAD branch and we need to debug it :-).
> 
> The *GROSS* and *DISGUSTING* (ie. mine :-) solution :
> -----------------------------------------------------
> It turns out that if you turn off NT access to the
> \\SRVSVC pipe for *just one open request* that NT
> will fall back to using the old Lanman code that
> we support.
> 
> The trick is failing the open at the right time :-).
> 
> I've now added code to do that in the 2.0 (and soon
> the HEAD) cvs branches, and would be interested in
> people testing this hack out to see if it's safe.
> 
> It works fine here, but I'd be happier with wider
> testing.
> 
> Let me know how you go on (you can tell if you
> have the new code by doing the following grep
> from the source/ directory of the 2.0 branch) :
> 
> grep disgusting smbd/ipc.c
>          * This is a *disgusting* hack.
> 
> Chees,
> 
> 	Jeremy.
> 
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