Variable substitution bug in Samba 1.9.18p10 ?

[Andre Albsmeier]

While trying to debug the fact that printing works here
but the print queue isn't returned properly, I found the
following behaviour which might be a bug in Samba 1.9.18p10:

I have (among others) the following lines in smb.conf:

[printer1]    
 create mode    = 0700
 read only      = yes
 printable      = yes
 path           = /var/spool/samba
 printer name   = %S
 comment        = Kyocera FS3600+
 printer driver = Kyocera FS-3600+ (KPDL-2)
 
[printer2]
 copy           = printer1
 comment        = Laserjet 4M Plus
 printer driver = HP LaserJet 4M Plus


Since my printcap printers have the same names (printer1 and
printer2) and I am lazy :-), I used the %S variable.
Printing works (using the lpr command) but the printer queue
shown on the Windows machines is always empty (using lpq).

By turning on the debugging I saw the follwing output in the logfile:

 Running the command `lpr -r -s -P printer1 /var/spool/samba/mobifi.n23036' gave 0

Here, with the print command, everything works. But later we find

 Running the command `lpq -PIPC$' gave 256

which fails of course since there is no printer IPC$.

For some reason, the substitution of %p (which turns out to become %S)
doesn't work when running lpq.


However, when using the following lines in smb.conf, everything works:

[printer1]  
 create mode    = 0700
 read only      = yes
 printable      = yes 
 path           = /var/spool/samba
 printer name   = printer1
 comment        = Kyocera FS3600+      
 printer driver = Kyocera FS-3600+ (KPDL-2)
 
[printer2]
 copy           = printer1  
 printer name   = printer2
 comment        = Laserjet 4M Plus      
 printer driver = HP LaserJet 4M Plus


Here, the printer name was changed from %S to the real printer name.

What do you think?

	-Andre


P.S.: Running on FreeBSD_2.2.7 but this shouldn't matter