Samba printing patches

Martin Zielinski mz at seh.de
Thu Apr 24 13:15:41 GMT 2008


Hello list, gurus ...

I'm totally aware that printing is not in the focus of development.
That's ok, since few people seem to use it and the team members are very
busy with things, I don't even have an idea how they work ;-)

So hopefully noone feels affected, when I start a next try to push some
printing patches upstream:

1st is a patch fixing two issues with Vista64 clients, which happen
sporadically. If one had a 0x6f7 error with printer drivers - try it out.

2nd patch fixes an obvious bug in the detection of driver files in use.
Currently files may be deleted, that are in use by other drivers.

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the next patches are all about the handling of comment and location 
strings of the printers:

3rd patch adds a function to update the ADS entry of a published
printer, when the location or comment string has been altered.

4th patch adds the option to set the location string of a printer with
rpcclient.

5th patch. For historical reasons Samba ignores the location string of
the underlying printing system (if there is one).
This patch changes this. If no location string is set, then the location
will be set to that one from the spooler (made especially for cups).

So than the "cups_pull_comment_and_location" call can be omitted.
This call still results in total traffic bloat if no comment or location
string is set. It should be removed.

6th patch adds a function to keep the strings in sync with cups when the
user changes the strings from windows. This function might collide with
an "addprinter command" - if one is  set - because it will be executed
after the function.

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all patches can be found at: ftp://ftp.seh.de/people/martin/

It would be great, if someone has the time to look at the patches and
give some feedback.
Even better, if someone can make use of them.
Of course, I can't give no warranties about the function of this patches
- use at your own risk.

Best wishes,

Martin





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