[Samba] windows printer queue failure

[Christoph Litauer]

Christoph Litauer wrote:
> I am driving Suse 8.2, samba 2.2.7a, cups 1.1.18
> 
> As I mentioned recently I cannot see the cups printer queues from a 
> windows client even if lpq -Pprinter on the cups server gives the 
> correct status.
> I tested a litte more and got the following results:
> 
> 1.) If I configure samba to
>     printing = CUPS
>     printcap name = CUPS
>     I can see all queue entries in the windows status panel, too -- 
> except for those jobs, that were sent by users with account names >= 8 
> characters. Is this a bug?
> 
> 2.) If I configure samba to
>     printing = sysv
>     printcap name = CUPS
>     lpq command = lpstat -o %p
>   I can see the jobs only as they appear on the samba-/cups-server. They 
> disappear from the status panel immediatly when the spooling is 
> finished. Should it work? Anybody else has this problem?
> 

Another amazing thing is that I can use
	print command = my own command with parameters
even if I configured
	printing = CUPS
	printcap name = CUPS

My smbd is linked against cups:
printhost:~ # ldd `which smbd`
         libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x40026000)
         libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0x4002d000)
         ...
	

Here is what the documentation says:
"With printing = cups, and if SAMBA is compiled against libcups, any 
manually set print command will be ignored."

And yes I am shure "my own command" is executed

I am a little bit confused ... what's happening here?
-- 
Regards
Christoph Litauer
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