[Samba] Samba 3.0.20pre2 printer driver problem

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jul 15 14:40:33 GMT 2005


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Joerg Pulz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> 
>>> Joerg Pulz wrote:
>>> | Content-ID: <20050714164530.A72944 at hades.admin.frm2>
>>> |
>>> | On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>>> |
>>> |>> Joerg Pulz wrote:
>>> |>> |
>>> |>> | After starting smbd and nmbd i saw all printers but
>>> |>> | unfortunately all driver association where lost!
>>> |>> | i found out, using rpcclient, that all printernames
>>> |>> | where converted to  lowercase. In Samba 3.0.14a all
>>> |>> | printernames where uppercase. i acted fast and switched
>>> |>> | back to 3.0.14a to make our clients happy.
>>> |>>
>>> |>> Could you send me your smb.conf?  This would be my fault.
>>> |>> We started normalizing the share names in the tdb.  But
>>> |>> I didn't do a tdb version upgrade whuich I should have.
>>> |>> Also send me the output from 'lpc stat' please.
>>>
>>> Joerg,  I should have this fixed tomorrow.  I'll send
>>> you a patch if you are interested.
> 
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> this sounds very good. if you could send me the patch, i 
> will give it a try.

Thanks.  Much appreciated.   I've uploaded the patch for
3.0.20pre2 to

http://www.samba.org/~jerry/patches/post-3.0.20pre2/print_upgrade_v1.patch

This passes all of my upgrade tests for printers and security
descriptors between 3.0.14a and 3.0.20





cheers, jerry
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