[Samba] Sudden printer errors

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Matthew Daubenspeck!

> I'm using Samba 4.2.0 and cups 2.0.2. I have had the same print server
> and config since the early 3.x days and have never had an issue. Now
> suddenly, any new printers added to cups can no longer be installed in
> Windows. XP clients give a generic "Windows cannot connect to the
> printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or the specified
> priner has lost its connection to the server."

Any apparmor complaints in the syslog?

> Windows 7 and 8 are the same. The strange part is that printers
> that were added to cups prior to this week can be installed fine. Any
> new cups printers added now will not install. I have a very simple
> smb.conf:

> [global]
>         netbios name = hal
>         workgroup = CAMPUS
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 100
>         security = user
>         load printers = yes
>         printing = CUPS
>         printcap = CUPS
>         hosts allow = 172.17., 127., 172.26.
>         map to guest = Bad User

> [printers]
>         comment = All printers
>         printable = yes
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         browseable = no
>         guest ok = yes
>         public = yes
>         use client driver = yes
>         force user = nobody

> There are currently 113 printers installed, and those previous printers
> work as expected with no issues. Just suddenly anything added to cups
> cannot be installed. Any suggestions? I turned up the log levels and
> can't seem anything specific that would point to the problem.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, April 18, 2015 02:42:25

Sorry for my terrible english...