[Samba] samba upgrades deletes printer driver pointers / 3.0.24 to 3.0.28 upgrade, lost printers

[Dave]

Hello,
    Thanks for your reply. In my case the /etc/samba/drivers area is intact, 
the files are still there, all looks good. In the smb.conf file no changes 
have been made. I see /var/lib/samba/printing/*.tdb files, yet when i try to 
connect to the printer to download the driver i'm informed that the server 
does not have the correct driver. Any other suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Schroeder" <dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com>
To: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>; "Michael Heydon" 
<michaelh at jaswin.com.au>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] samba upgrades deletes printer driver pointers / 3.0.24 
to 3.0.28 upgrade, lost printers


> Michael / Dave,
>
> Since the two of you are having similar problems, I thought I would 
> respond to both at the same time.  I cannot tell from your messages if 
> your Samba/CUPS setup is similar to mine or not.
>
> I started experiencing this problem on Debian lenny systems at either 
> 3.0.26a or 3.0.27.  It has continued to 3.0.28.  In my case, it only 
> affected systems in which I had compiled CUPS from the sources at 
> cups.org.  On the systems where both packages came from Debian, I have 
> experienced no problems.  On the affected systems, no amount of restarting 
> samba and CUPS would fix the problem.  To bring them back I had to reboot 
> the system; and in some cases, there was a lag time after the reboot 
> before the printers reappeared.  I do not have an explanation; maybe 
> someone else can offer one.
>
> Dale
>
> Michael Heydon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently upgraded from 3.0.24 to 3.0.28 on my Slackware 11.0 PDC. I 
>> have just noticed several printers have disappeared (they still exist and 
>> work in cups but they do not show up in the share listing on the server 
>> and users who have them set up cannot print).
>>
>> Most of the printers are still present, the ones the disappeared have 
>> names that are 17 or more characters, the remaining printers all have 
>> names of 15 characters or less. All of the clients are XP Pro SP2.
>>
>> I found an old mailing list message (2003) mentioning a 13 character 
>> limit when listing shares, however I don't believe this is the cause as 
>> some of the remaining printers have names > 13 characters.
>>
>> The name length is the only obvious thing that the missing printers have 
>> in common. Is there a known difference between .24 and .28 share 
>> name/printer name handling? and if so is there a simple way to change it 
>> back?
>
>
> Dave wrote:
>> Hello,
>>    I'm running a samba and cups combo on a Centos 5.1 machine. It's 
>> acting as a lan print server. I used pointprint to upload drivers to the 
>> samba share so that windows clients could obtain them. This was working 
>> fine until i'm assuming the upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 on centos, when samba was 
>> upgraded. The driver paths are still there, drivers, shares, but the .tdb 
>> files are not. When i try to connect to the printer and download drivers 
>> i'm told that the samba server does not contain the needed drivers. Short 
>> of a reinstall is there a way to recover?
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>>