[Samba] SOLVED Samba 3.0.0, CUPS support - "Unable to open printcap file cups for read!"

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Fran Fabrizio wrote:

>>I have set "Printcap /dev/null" in cupsd.conf and re-started cupsd first
>>then smbd. Guess what? "smbclient -L localhost" still lists all my
>>printers! And I can still print from my Windows apps. (I can't print
>>anymore from OpenOffice, since that one *does* look for a printcap....)
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> 
> In desperation I tried "printcap = /etc/printcap" even though the HOWTO
> recommended "printcap = cups" and Kurt's advice above is that you could
> even redirect to /dev/null.  Guess what, it worked.  At least on my
> install, it seems to require that you do have a real, live printcap even
> for CUPS printing support.  I then added another printer via the redhat
> printer config tool, which added it to CUPS.  I restarted smb and the
> new printer showed up on my Windows clients.  So, the residual question
> is why does it require a real printcap file even under CUPS support? 

I think you should submit a bug report to http://bugzilla.samba.org/


> The docs don't seem to feel that it should.
> 
> Now I need to solve the "You do not have sufficient access to your
> computer to connect to this printer" problem from the Windows clients.
> :-)
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> Fran 
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