[MOST LIKELY SOLVED] Printing bugs and annoyances in 3.0.25b

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:


> Here are the problems encountered:
> ==================================
> 
> Some printers which contained a non-empty string in the "Description:"
> and/or the "Location:" fields (CUPS web interface, or as shown in output
> of "lpstat -l -p printername") did not show up in the Windows Network
> Neighbourhood under their CUPS names, but re-named, and their name
> now was the first word of their "Description" string as given on the
> CUPS side. It was not possible for Windows clients to use these printers.
> There also appeared .tdb files with such names, like

Most likely, this behavior was also caused by them inadvertedly using
"printing = bsd" in their setup (which is Samba's default) due to them
missing to have included *any* explicit "printing = ..." line ...


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Kurt Pfeifle
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