[Samba] Printer settings don't stick

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Stephen Thomas wrote:

> 1.  Does ntforms.tdb only store certain standard settings 
> (page size, orientation, whatever) or can it hold
> anything a Windows printer driver cares to throw at it?

ntforms only stores paper sizes.  ntprinters store the per
user printer information.

> 2.  Do I need to make ntforms.tdb writable by anybody 
> other than root (for example, should I set it to
> root:lpadmin rwxrwxr-x like the directory where print$
> is mapped)?

No.  The tdb is opened as root and smbd does the
appropriate access checks internally.

> 3.  Is that amount of DCERPC traffic normal, or is 
> this likely to be a bonehead Windows driver trying
> over and over again to read some kind of status
> data back from the printer?

It can be both depending on the driver.  If it's the
exact same request over and over, it's probably the XP
spooler caught in a loop.

> 4.  Where should I be looking to find out how to 
> decipher the DCERPC traffic?

Use ethereal (now called wireshark).  Best SMB/CIFS/MS-RPC
anaylzer around.






cheers, jerry
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