[Samba] domain printer issues

Daniel Sheridan dan.sheridan at postman.org.uk
Tue Dec 1 05:36:51 MST 2009


On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 09:14 +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Daniel Sheridan wrote:
> > FWIW, I have the same problem here with Samba 3.4.2 and Windows XP
> > clients. In fact, one printer driver works via point'n'print, but 
> > the others do not, so for now I've set all printers to use that one
> > driver (the PPDs are similar enough that it's not a problem).
> 
> Ok, so maybe it was the upgrade from 3.2.5 to 3.4.2 (required for
> Windows 7) that broke things. The first few days seemed fine, so I
> thought it was OK, but maybe that is because nobody reported
> problems...

I'm currently blaming 3.4.x. Downgrading to 3.3.2 (the most recent 3.3
easily available as an Ubuntu package) makes the driver installation
work perfectly. Upgrading to 3.4.x breaks it again. Clean /var/lib/samba
and /var/cache/samba each time.

	Dan.




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