[Samba] Samba Printing api_rpcTNP: \spoolss: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed

[Achim Gottinger]

Update:
Checked logs of all my debian print servers and none had these error 
messages today, i guess i had forgotten to restart samba on that server 
whom still showed the error. I had also found that erroro message on a 
few other servers with an missing unix charset line whom i all moodified 
and restarted. (There is still a chance that they did not print anything 
which triggered that error.)

Here is an bug report for that problem, that's where i found that unix 
charset fix.
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8082

Checked the default if that variable is not explicity declared in 
smb.conf with terstparam -v and it is

unix charset = UTF-8
display charset = LOCALE

Seems debian has an problem with UTF-8 but not with UTF8. =-O

These are my locale settings
#locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=



https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8082
Am 15.09.2011 01:04, schrieb Achim Gottinger:
> It is odd here also, on one server (debian lenny with samba 3.5.6 from 
> backports) using
>
> dos charset = 850
> unix charset = UTF8
>
> fixed that issue on an other server (same osand versions) i also had 
> to add the unix charset line and it worked for an document which did 
> not work without and generated an error log entry like yours. looking 
> at the log file i still see a few of those SPOOLSS error messages. 
> Users did not report problems but i have to ask em if they have had 
> issues with printing this week.
> If the error occures there is no print job generated at the cups 
> server at all and errors like those above appear in log.smbd
>
> [2011/09/14 16:09:28.780842,  0] lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(@<DD>^W^TH<DD>^X^T^A^D)
> [2011/09/14 16:09:28.780969,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
>   api_rpcTNP: \spoolss: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed.
> [2011/09/14 16:09:29.001633,  0] lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(@<DD>^W^TH<DD>^X^T^A^D)
> [2011/09/14 16:09:29.001724,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
>   api_rpcTNP: \spoolss: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed.
> [2011/09/14 16:20:05.843419,  0] lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte 
> sequence(<88><DF>^H^N<E0><9F>^T^T`<D9>^K^T)
> [2011/09/14 16:20:05.843511,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
>   api_rpcTNP: \spoolss: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed.
> [2011/09/14 16:20:06.107415,  0] lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte 
> sequence(<88><DF>^H^N<E0><9F>^T^T`<D9>^K^T)
> [2011/09/14 16:20:06.107788,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
>
>
> achim~