[Samba] Problems uploading printer drivers

[Greg Baker]

I have finally figured this problem out!!

After weeks of staring at the log file, I noticed a little hostname lookup 
function that was failing.

As is turns out, the name of the server we were connecting to had an alias.  
This alias messed everything up.

For example, if the server's REAL name is
	server1.something.subdomain.domain.com 
which is aliased to:
	server1.domain.com

Then if in windows you connect to \\server1.domain.com you will not get a list 
of printer drivers.  The printer driver list only appears when connecting to 
\\server1.something.subdomain.domain.com

Strange, but this is definitely the problem.  I wonder if this is a feature or 
a bug?

Anyway, thanks to all for helping..

On July 28, 2005 06:53 am, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Sorry to contact you directly but we have quite the same problem here in
> my company.
>
> Did you finally succeed in solving this issue?
>
> Here we have several dozen of printers but a particular Dell 3000cn won't
> work (with approximately the same behaviour). We follow the same procedure
> as Greg do.
>
> Could you help me?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Cyrille
>
>
>
>
> "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
> Envoyé par : samba-bounces+cyrille.bollu=fedasil.be at lists.samba.org
> 14/07/2005 15:17
>
> A
> Greg Baker <gbaker at cs.mun.ca>
> cc
> samba at lists.samba.org
> Objet
> Re: [Samba] Problems uploading printer drivers
>
> Greg Baker wrote:
> | On July 12, 2005 06:10 pm, you wrote:
> |>Greg,
> |>
> |>In release < 3.0.11 you need to set the printer admin
> |>option in the [global] section of smb.conf to give
> |>user's the necessary permission to update the nt*tdb
> |>files.  CHeck that this is working (sounds like it is).
> |>And make sure that you don't have 'use client driver
> |>= yes' set anywhere in smb.conf.
> |
> | Thanks for the reply, Jerry.  I do indeed have that
> | option set in the [global]  section of smb.conf.  I
> | also have use client driver = no set in there.
> |
> | I've read all the howtos and have gone through
> | them step by step, so I don't  think it's a
> | configuration problem.  I believe it is something else.
> | Unfortunately neither the log files nor the stack
> | traces I've been doing have  given me any clues as
> | to what.
>
> Could you send me a level 10 debug log form smbd
> showing the driver upload?  And remind me what
> version of Samba we are dealing with here.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> cheers, jerry
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