[Samba] domain printer issues

[Dale Schroeder]

Daniel,

The printing changes in 3.4.x seem to have affected numerous Debian 
users, but not all in the same manner.
For me, the upgrade caused some pcl5 drivers to cease functioning.  
Newer drivers helped in some cases,
but for one printer where there was no newer driver, I resorted to using 
the postscript driver instead.

Dale


Daniel Sheridan wrote:
> 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.
>