[Samba] Printers not browsable in Samba

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Mar 8 20:45:06 UTC 2023



On 08/03/2023 20:24, Evaristo Batista via samba wrote:
> SMB.Confin File I can see the printers added in the CUPs, I observed that
> the samba is not setting the Browseable = yes parameter. See the samba
> configuration file and the output of Testparm:
> 
> [printers]
>     comment = Compartilhamento de Impressoras
>     path = /var/spool/samba
>     printable = yes
>     guest ok = no
>     read only = yes
>     create mask = 0700
>     browseable = yes
> 
> Saida do Testparm
> 
> # testparm
> [printers]
>          browseable = No
>          comment = Compartilhamento de Impressoras
>          create mask = 0700
>          path = /var/spool/samba
>          printable = Yes
> 

I had to look twice before I realised what you were saying and after a 
quick test, yes you seem to have found a bug, testparm does turn 
'browseable = yes' in smb.conf into 'browseable = No'
Would you like to open a bug report ?

Rowland




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