[Samba] Problem with job removal

Arthur Guez joyman555 at gmail.com
Wed May 31 16:59:20 GMT 2006


Thanks for your input.
Actually we tried using samba version 3.0.22 and changing the winbind
separator to a +, and  now it works fine.
Altough the deleting is something slow, but that might be normal.

Arthur

On 5/31/06, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> wrote:
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> I use:
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> printing = lprng
> print command = /opt/LPRng/bin/lpr -P%p -U%U -J'%J' -r %s
> lpq command = /opt/LPRng/bin/lpq -P%p
> lprm command = /opt/LPRng/bin/lprm -P%p -U%U %j
> lppause command = /opt/LPRng/sbin/lpc -U%U hold %p %j
> lpresume command = /opt/LPRng/sbin/lpc -U%U release %p %j
> queuepause command = /opt/LPRng/sbin/lpc -U%U -P%p stop
> queueresume command = /opt/LPRng/sbin/lpc -U%U -P%p start
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>
> Arthur Guez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We've been stuck with this problem for a while now and we believe I
> >  tried enough potential solutions to justify my posting here. We're
> > using samba 3.0.14a in Sarge in order to allow printing from
> > Windows workstations (The authentication works with
> > AD+Kerberos+Winbind) to a set of shared printers. Printing works
> > perfectly but we would like to allow users to have control over the
> > jobs (most importantly remove jobs) they submit and them only.
> > Unfortunately this does not seem to work with any of the
> > configurations we've tried. When a job is cancelled, it is replaced
> >  in the windows queue by a job called "remote downlevel document"
> > Here are the relevant sections of our smb.conf file: (without any
> > of the hacks we attempted)
> >
> > [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/lpd printable =
> > yes printing = lprng load printers = yes printcap name =
> > /etc/printcap guest ok = no print command =       /usr/bin/lpr -P%p
> > -r %s lpq command   =      /usr/bin/lpq -P%p lprm command  =
> > /usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j lppause command =     /usr/sbin/lpc hold %p
> > %j lpresume command =    /usr/sbin/lpc release %p %j queuepause
> > command =  /usr/sbin/lpc stop %p queueresume command =
> > /usr/sbin/lpc start %p
> >
> > One of the things we've tried to do was to replace the lrprng
> > commands called by samba with setuid programs which call the same
> > commands but specify the user using the -U option. This works for
> > lpr as desired but for some unknown reason it seems that the
> > program that should be called instead of lprm is only called at
> > times when a user tries to remove a "remote downlevel document".
> > (When called on a "normal" job, it gets turned into a remote
> > downlevel, but the program is NOT called) Here is the same file as
> > above, configured for the above method: (we're using the default
> > lpd.perms)
> >
> > [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/lpd printable =
> > yes printing = lprng load printers = yes printcap name =
> > /etc/printcap guest ok = no print command =      /usr/bin/setlpr
> > "%U@%M" "%p" "%s" lpq command   =      /usr/bin/lpq -P%p lprm
> > command  =      /usr/bin/setlprm "%U@%M" "%p" "%j" ...
> >
> > and the programs look like this:  (they are setuid) setuid(0)
> > system("lprm -U%s -P%s %s", arg1, arg2, arg3);
> >
> > Also, we tried to modify the source, but we were surprised by the
> > fact that samba is doing so much permission checking,  isn't that
> > the role of lprng ?
> >
> > Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
> >
> > Arthur
> >
> > NOTE: Our users are of the form "CAMPUS\username". I don't know if
> > the backslash can cause a problem, but without using the -U option,
> > the owner appears as "CAMPUS\username" in lpq but just "username"
> > in the windows queue, and then "CAMPUS\username" in the windows
> > queue when it is a remote downlevel document. When using our
> > programs with the -U option it's just "username" everywhere.
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