[Samba] domain printer issues

[Guenther Deschner]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:36:51PM +0000, 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.

This is unfortunately a known issue and we are actively working on
resolving this; if you have a chance to test, the 3-4-test git branch
should have the necessary fixes (unless you are running sparc).

For Samba 3.4.4 these issues will be resolved.

Thanks,
Guenther

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Günther Deschner                    GPG-ID: 8EE11688
Red Hat                         gdeschner at redhat.com
Samba Team                              gd at samba.org
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