[Samba] smbsrv_reply_printwrite not returning a response causing the print job to be truncated to 124 bytes

[Rowland penny]

On 29/04/2021 12:49, Mateusz Mikołajczyk wrote:
> yes, I have read it. In fact, had it not been for the damned DOS 
> client the printing would have work flawlessly as well. windows 
> machines are able to print from the same printer - just not the DOS 
> client. I suppose the reason is that (as I've read in either samba 
> wiki or manual pages) later versions of the protocol switched to a 
> different way of printing whereas the DOS seems to be using the old 
> LanMan printing (?).
>
> again, I actually suspect that this could be a hack of some sort added 
> on the win xp implementation because that's the server that seems to 
> be sending the print file write response. if I'd need to write a patch 
> and use a locally-compiled version of samba, I'd also be happy with 
> that because I do understand that nobody should even be using this 
> legacy function calls in the first place, but my problem is that I 
> don't know what I should write in order for the function to resemble 
> the old samba 3 behavior ;)
>
> I didn't knew that ntvfs handler would not be used, I only started to 
> experiment with configuration options as I had a hunch that this had 
> something to do with sync / async and I basically searched manual page 
> for smb.conf for every mention of either 'DOS', 'legacy', 'sync' 
> keywords and tried to apply them as some of them were limited to a share.
>
> I've also tried to use 'disable spoolss = yes' but then samba responds 
> with an error packet (code = 0x03 that is described by wireshark as 
> 'Hardware Error')
>
> Could it be that I should simply revert to samba 3.0.3 instead of 
> using the upstream version ? I don't actually require any DC 
> functionality at all, I was just hoping that I could achieve the same 
> functionality on the upstream release via some 'magical' configuration 
> switch :).


Your problem is in your use of such old machines and protocols, which is 
probably being forced on you. In an ideal world you could replace them 
with something newer, but this isn't an ideal world, so you have to use 
what you have.

Are the machines airgapped from any other machines ? If so I would think 
you would find it easier to use an older version of Samba than trying to 
get a newer version to work. You could write your own patches, but this 
will be much more work.

Rowland