[Samba] windows printer queue failure

[Christoph Litauer]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Christoph Litauer litauer at uni-koblenz.de wrote on Samba-Digest:
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Interesting observation.
> 
> How is the authentication setup of your system? I assume this is just a
> standalone Samba server? Or are you authenticating your Windows clients
> via a third source?
> 
> Is the underlying Linux supporting user names longer than 8 chars?

Yes:

printhost:~ # id hochschulteam
uid=7741(hochschulteam) gid=30(extern) groups=30(extern)

[hochschulteam at printhost->~] 10) lpr -Ptest /etc/group
[hochschulteam at printhost->~] 11) lpq -Ptest
test is not ready
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
1st     hochschu8388    group                           1024 bytes

I cannot see this job in a windows status panel.

> 
> (Just to clarify: is it really also a problem with account names = 8
> chars?)

Yes:
[ridcully at printhost->~] 3) lpq -PTest
Test is not ready
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
1st     hochschu8388    group                           1024 bytes
2nd     ridcully8389    group                           1024 bytes

I cannot see the 2nd job, too.

>> 2.) If I configure samba to
>>     printing = sysv
>>     printcap name = CUPS
> 
> 
> Shouldn't you use "printcap = /etc/printcap" ? (Probably smbd doesn't
> understand this setting anyway and therefore chooses the compiled-in
> default -- you could verify this by asking "testparm | grep printcap",
> "[ENTER]" twice...)

printhost:~ # testparm | grep printcap

         printcap name = CUPS

I tested with /etc/printcap, too. No difference.

> Check if you get a better result from the "lpq -P printername" variant....
> 

I already checked this out. No difference.

-- 
Regards
Christoph Litauer
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