[PATCHSET] Add tool to convert latin1 printing tdbs.

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Wed Mar 13 04:48:13 MDT 2013


Hello Samba-Technial!

It is still the case that there are printing tdbs (ntpringint.tdb, ntforms.tdb,
ntdrivers.tdb) which are in ISO8859-1 or other encodings. When updating from
Samba 3.5 or earlier to Samba 3.6 or 4.0 these tdbs need to be migrated our
registry based printing management.  This means during the migration we also
need to do charset conversion.

We've extended the 'net printing dump' and 'net printing migrate' commands to
define the encoding of the tdb. So you can correctly view the tdb or migrate
it with e.g.:

  net printing migrate encoding=CP1252 ntprinters.tdb

If you migrate printers we suggest you do it in the following order.

ntforms.tdb
ntdrivers.tdb
ntprinting.tdb


The patchset needs to be backported to 4.0 and 3.6 once it is in master.


Cheers,


    -- andreas

P.S.: Karolin please add the text also to the WHATSNEW.txt file for the next
releases (4.1, 4.0.x and 3.6.x (when backported)).




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