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

[Claus Rosenberger]

Same problem here, with the crystal report software too. I tried UTF-8 and UTF8, it makes no difference.
Am 16.09.2011 12:02:32, schrieb Achim Gottinger:
> After an day without issues i just received an phone call about an 
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printing issue and i found a few "illegal multibyte sequence" errors in 
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the log file again.
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Unfortunately i can not reproduce the situation where this error occured 
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an second try to print that document out of the archive worked but since 
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it's an crystal report form generated out of an database from our 
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business software something may be different when printing from the 
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archive. Hope i'll get an reproducible situation so i can grab an 
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wireshark trace and more detailed samba log info's.
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> 
achim~
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Am 15.09.2011 17:01, schrieb Achim Gottinger:
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> Update:
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> Checked logs of all my debian print servers and none had these error 
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> messages today, i guess i had forgotten to restart samba on that 
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> server whom still showed the error. I had also found that erroro 
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> message on a few other servers with an missing unix charset line whom 
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> i all moodified and restarted. (There is still a chance that they did 
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> not print anything which triggered that error.)
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> Here is an bug report for that problem, that's where i found that unix 
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> charset fix.
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> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8082
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> Checked the default if that variable is not explicity declared in 
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> smb.conf with terstparam -v and it is
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> unix charset = UTF-8
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> display charset = LOCALE
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> Seems debian has an problem with UTF-8 but not with UTF8. =-O
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> These are my locale settings
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> #locale
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> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
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> LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
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> LC_ALL=
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> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8082
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> Am 15.09.2011 01:04, schrieb Achim Gottinger:
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>> It is odd here also, on one server (debian lenny with samba 3.5.6 
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>> from backports) using
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>> dos charset = 850
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>> unix charset = UTF8
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>> fixed that issue on an other server (same osand versions) i also had 
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>> to add the unix charset line and it worked for an document which did 
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>> not work without and generated an error log entry like yours. looking 
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>> at the log file i still see a few of those SPOOLSS error messages. 
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>> Users did not report problems but i have to ask em if they have had 
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>> issues with printing this week.
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>> If the error occures there is no print job generated at the cups 
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>> server at all and errors like those above appear in log.smbd
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>> [2011/09/14 16:09:28.780842,  0] 
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>> lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
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>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(@<DD>^W^TH<DD>^X^T^A^D)
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>> [2011/09/14 16:09:28.780969,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
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>>   api_rpcTNP: \spoolss: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed.
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>> [2011/09/14 16:09:29.001633,  0] 
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>> lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
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>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte sequence(@<DD>^W^TH<DD>^X^T^A^D)
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>> [2011/09/14 16:09:29.001724,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
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>>   api_rpcTNP: \spoolss: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed.
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>> [2011/09/14 16:20:05.843419,  0] 
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>> lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
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>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte 
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>> sequence(<88><DF>^H^N<E0><9F>^T^T`<D9>^K^T)
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>> [2011/09/14 16:20:05.843511,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
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>>   api_rpcTNP: \spoolss: SPOOLSS_OPENPRINTEREX failed.
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>> [2011/09/14 16:20:06.107415,  0] 
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>> lib/charcnv.c:650(convert_string_talloc)
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>>   Conversion error: Illegal multibyte 
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>> sequence(<88><DF>^H^N<E0><9F>^T^T`<D9>^K^T)
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>> [2011/09/14 16:20:06.107788,  0] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:2439(api_rpcTNP)
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>> achim~
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