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

[Michael Heydon]

Dale Schroeder wrote:
> 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 don't think the problems are quite the same (the printers that remain 
on my system still have fully functional drivers). Although I guess 
damage to the printers database could be responsible in both cases.

> 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.
>
My cups and the new samba package were all official slackware releases 
(in most cases slackware packages are extremely close to the official 
releases, customisations are kept to a minimum), my old samba .24 
package was from source. I don't believe the custom package had any 
printer related tweaks (is it possible to find the configure options 
used to generate a binary?).

I haven't been able to reboot the system, I will give it a try on Friday 
and see what happens.

Good luck Dave :)

Thanks
> Dale
>
> Michael Heydon wrote:
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> Dave wrote:
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*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh at jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh at jaswin.com.au>