[Samba] Print Management Blank After Working for Years

[Rowland Penny]

On 23/01/2023 21:41, Aaron de Bruyn wrote:
> There's got to be more to this...
> 
> I stopped samba, cups, and winbind.
> I rm -rf'd the my print driver store (under /tank/printing on my systems)
> I nuked /var/cache/samba/print*
> I started all the services back up.
> 
> I closed/opened Print Management, and while it's still suffering from 
> the whole not-displaying-anything problem from before, if I right-click 
> on the Samba box and go to Properties and then the Drivers tab....I see 
> drivers listed. Even though I nuked /tank/printing.
> 
> Running "net rpc printer driver" shows old Lexmark drivers installed.
> I tried restarting various RPC services and it still shows those drivers.
> 
> Where is RPC getting that information?
> 

You know that mess called 'the registry', probably from there.

Rowland