Samba - SVR4 UNIX and WIN NT servers in same network.

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Mon Nov 27 19:10:08 GMT 2000


Allan Reid wrote:
> 
> My question is how do I get UNIX machines running Samba to NOT show up  in a
> network list of printers.
> 
> On my WIN 2000 PC  I do Start/Settings/Printers
> 
> Then I select Add Printer and select Network Printer   and browse for
> printers available on the network.
> 
> I recieve a display of about 6 UNIX machines including SVR4, HP UNIX, SUN
> SOLARIS, UNIXWARE7.
> 
> The main problem is  that it takes a long time for the output to be
> displayed.    There are no printers on the UNIX machines. We use NT
> printers.

Make the following change to the 2.0.7 source code :

We could make this a parameter for 2.2. What do people think of
this idea ?

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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Index: param/loadparm.c
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RCS file: /data/cvs/samba/source/param/loadparm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.170.2.23.2.15
diff -u -r1.170.2.23.2.15 loadparm.c
--- param/loadparm.c    2000/04/21 17:43:12     1.170.2.23.2.15
+++ param/loadparm.c    2000/11/27 19:04:51
@@ -2916,7 +2916,7 @@
 static void set_default_server_announce_type(void)
 {
   default_server_announce = (SV_TYPE_WORKSTATION | SV_TYPE_SERVER |
-                              SV_TYPE_SERVER_UNIX | SV_TYPE_PRINTQ_SERVER);
+                              SV_TYPE_SERVER_UNIX);
   if(lp_announce_as() == ANNOUNCE_AS_NT_SERVER)
     default_server_announce |= (SV_TYPE_SERVER_NT | SV_TYPE_NT);
   if(lp_announce_as() == ANNOUNCE_AS_NT_WORKSTATION)
-- 
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