[Samba] Samba 3 and CUPs printer causes explorer to abend
Orwig, Paul
PORWIG at PacificLife.com
Mon Nov 17 21:17:20 GMT 2003
Funny you mention that...
I am using your Prentice-Hall book "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference
Guide" Chapter 18 of which covers CUPS.
My process thus far has been:
1) Download the RedHat 9 ISO images and create install media
2) Install RedHat 9
3) Setup CUPS (I even downloaded the latest version at that time)
4) I used the redhat printconf-gui program to configure a few
printers and verified that CUPS to these printers worked. I also used the
CUPS web gui to configure a "raw" printer. (Printers are configured with the
Jetdirect interface and not forced to popstscript.)
5) Downloaded the "Released" version of SAMBA 3.0 (RPM from
samba.org)
6) Attempted to get Samba and Winbindd to work with Active
Directory. ( Topic for another discussion)
7) Reverted to NTLM. Successfully see printers on Network
Neighborhood.
8) Following the HOWTO procedure, uploaded printer drivers to the
Samba server.
(i.e. create the /etc/samba/drivers and /etc/samba/driver/W32X86
directories. used vi to add the [print$] section to smb.conf. From my W2k
system, use My Network Places-->Entire Network-->Microsoft Windows Network
to get to the samba server. I right-click on the server and click explore to
open an explorer window. Double-click the Printers folder. Then right click
a printer and choose properties.
At this point, any printer that has had the driver uploaded becomes a
Microsoft bomb; causing an abend on a) Windows Explorer and b) Internet
explorer.
Samba and CUPS were both installed as RPMs. SWAT was used to configure
Samba.
NOTE: The /etc/samba/drivers/W32X86 directory is populated.
Also, for security reasons we do not allow the root user to be active on the
Windows domain, therefore the drivers were uploaded using my userid. Access
to the printers has used the same userid.
I tend to not use beta and pre-release software because they are not
"certified" as stable.
I have a hard sell to get my managers to consider trying open source
software as this is very much a Microsoft shop.
My reason for using Samba-3 is to be able to work under Active Directory. I
have another test server I will use to work out the problems with winbind. (
This is a proof of concept project that has dragged on for 8 weeks due
mostly to foot dragging on the Microsoft side of the shop.)
-----Original Message-----
From: John H Terpstra [mailto:jht at samba.org]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:02 PM
To: Orwig, Paul
Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3 and CUPs printer causes explorer to abend
Paul,
Have you followed the documentation in the CUPS Chapter of the
Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf that ships with Samba-3?
It's available from:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
(Refer to the Documentation Web pages on Samba.org).
>From my recollection, you might want to update your CUPS to version 1.1.18
or later.
If you have followed the information presented in the HOWTO, then please
document precisely how I may reproduce your problem. This will need to
document every step while making no assumptions that whoever is following
them has any intelligence. We can fix only a problem we can reproduce.
Cheers,
John T.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Orwig, Paul wrote:
> I am attempting to setup a Samba printserver to replace our Windows Print
> servers.
> I have defined a few printers in CUPS, some raw, and some not.
> When I use the GUi to upload the drivers, The dialog works, however after
> that is accomplished, any attempt to get the printer properties or to use
> the printer from my W2K system (cpq0277) causes explorer to ABEND.
>
> System setup:
> RedHat 9
> CUPS 1.1.17-13.3
> Samba 3.0.0-2
>
> I get the following in the samba log.cpq0277 file:
>
> [2003/11/14 16:07:18, 0] lib/util_str.c:safe_strcpy_fn(577)
> ERROR: NULL dest in safe_strcpy
> [2003/11/14 16:07:19, 0] lib/util_str.c:safe_strcpy_fn(577)
> ERROR: NULL dest in safe_strcpy
> [2003/11/14 16:07:19, 0] lib/util_str.c:safe_strcpy_fn(577)
> ERROR: NULL dest in safe_strcpy
> [2003/11/14 16:07:41, 0] smbd/connection.c:register_message_flags(220)
> register_message_flags: tdb_fetch failed
> [2003/11/14 16:07:41, 0] lib/util_str.c:safe_strcpy_fn(577)
> ERROR: NULL dest in safe_strcpy
> [2003/11/14 16:08:32, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(880)
> cpq0277 (10.145.8.19) closed connection to service print$
>
>
> smb.conf is:
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> workgroup = DOMAIN
> server string = ANNLPR01
> security = DOMAIN
> map to guest = Bad User
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 50
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> preferred master = No
> local master = No
> domain master = No
> dns proxy = No
> wins server = ipaddress
> ldap ssl = no
> idmap uid = 10000-20000
> idmap gid = 10000-20000
> template shell = /bin/bash
> winbind separator = +
> winbind use default domain = Yes
> printing = cups
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> printable = Yes
> browseable = No
> printer admin = porwig
>
> [print$]
> comment = Printer Driver Download Area
> path = /etc/samba/drivers
> browseable = yes
> guest ok = yes
> read only = yes
> write list = porwig
>
>
>
> CUPS printers.conf:
>
> # Written by cupsd on Fri 14 Nov 2003 11:23:25 PM GMT
> <DefaultPrinter DW01>
> Info Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x
> Location HPLJ 8000DN
> DeviceURI socket://192.168.8.54:9100
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
> <Printer DW02-C>
> Info Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x
> Location HPLJ 4500 Color
> DeviceURI socket://192.168.8.52:9100
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
> <Printer DW03>
> Info Created by redhat-config-printer 0.6.x
> Location HPLJ 4000 CP2-250
> DeviceURI socket://192.168.8.53:9100
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
> <Printer NOG01>
> Info NT Group HPLJ 8000N
> Location CP2-250
> DeviceURI socket://192.168.8.51
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
>
>
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
>
> Paul Orwig
> Pacific Life Annuities
> Newport Beach, California
>
>
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