[Samba] printing issue after update to 3.6.1

[Stefan Winter]

Hello,

we've updated to 3.6.1 yesterday, and since encounter
problems with printing for some users. There's a
descriptive error in the log.smbd, but I can't see
what to do about it really (the rest of the,
admittedly fairly ancient system, is the same base
system as the previous 3.5.5 - only a couple of security
updates were patched in during downtime).

The message in log.smbd is:

  adminpc-rmarx (158.64.1.188) connect to service SuperJam PCL6 initially as user Administrator (uid=1003, gid=100) (pid 15885)
[2012/01/25 13:14:01.334500,  2] rpc_client/cli_winreg_spoolss.c:898(winreg_create_printer)
  winreg_create_printer: Skipping, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\SuperJam PCL6 already exists
[2012/01/25 13:14:01.575723,  0] printing/print_cups.c:940(cups_job_submit)
  cups_job_submit: failed to parse jobid from name /usr/local/samba/var/spool/samba/smbprn..CXRIP3
[2012/01/25 13:14:11.775067,  1] smbd/service.c:1291(close_cnum)
  adminpc-rmarx (158.64.1.188) closed connection to service SuperJam PCL6

And indeed, looking into the spool directory, the file
names which used to encode the jobid now don't any more.
For illustration, a few old spooled jobs in the right
format as well:

[... snip lots more of the same ...]
-rw------- 1 rmarx      users       0 Jan 25 15:29 smbprn..zfgbGg
-rw------- 1 rmarx      users       0 Jan 25 14:41 smbprn..zjVnMg
-rw------- 1 rmarx      users       0 Jan 25 08:46 smbprn..zpuUmw
-rw------- 1 rmarx      users       0 Jan 25 15:25 smbprn..zqdI3C
-rw------- 1 rmarx      users       0 Jan 25 15:09 smbprn..zqu3kj
-rw------- 1 rmarx      users       0 Jan 25 14:46 smbprn..zx3GuR
-rw------- 1 rmarx      users       0 Jan 25 15:28 smbprn..zxNUxy
-rw------- 1 tduhautpas users 1657499 Apr 21  2008 smbprn.00000676.rcl7r5
-rw------- 1 tduhautpas users 3441093 Apr 21  2008 smbprn.00000678.eJYB0d
-rw------- 1 tduhautpas users 1587952 Apr 21  2008 smbprn.00000679.0TbJsK
-rw------- 1 tduhautpas users  581632 May 25  2009 smbprn.00001277.TEBFAb
-rw------- 1 abarthel   users    6774 Nov 15  2007 smbprn.00002633.psJWJh
-rw------- 1 lbattani   users   53156 Dec 14  2007 smbprn.00003546.e7BsgC
-rw------- 1 yschaaf    users    8179 Oct 17  2008 smbprn.00006035.9IfNcf

So, for some reasons, jobid gets lost. Strangely enough, the file size is also zero.

I'm sort of lost what would cause this. The thing I could
imagine is our fairly ancient cups on the system (1.2.7)
and that maybe 3.6.1 doesn't support some legacy CUPS API stuff that
3.5.5 still did. That's the only straw I'm holding onto.

Can anyone help out here?

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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Stefan WINTER
Ingenieur de Recherche
Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche
6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
L-1359 Luxembourg

Tel: +352 424409 1
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