Samba printing patches

Martin Zielinski mz at seh.de
Sun Apr 27 07:13:52 GMT 2008


Hi all,

here they are ...

Jeremy Allison schrieb:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ====================================================================
>> 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.
> 
> I already fixed this in the 3.0.x and 3.2 trees.
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> -------------------------------------
[...]
> Can you post them on the list separately please, it makes it much
> easier for us to include them that way.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Jeremy.
> 

Thanks a lot,

Martin

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