[Samba] Where samba store printer/driver information?

[Luis Peromarta]

If printers are there and drivers are there you may need to manually re assign them with “printer manager”

On 19 Aug 2024 at 16:10 +0200, Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote:
> Mandi! Luis Peromarta via samba
> In chel di` si favelave...
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> > Not sure what your question is but I do set up printers and associate drivers like this:
> > http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:print-server
> > http://samba.bigbird.es/doku.php?id=samba:automatic-drivers
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> Yes, exactly the same way.
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> Simply suddenly i've lost all printer (eg, lost printer<->driver association,
> and printer names). I'm curious on where these info get saved, because if i
> backup a TDB i can, at least, restore or extract/dump some info and setup
> printers back.
>
> Note that in windows printer names are important, if you change printer name
> user smply lost them, so i've to restore exactly the printer name as before.
>
> Note also that i lost exactly only printer<->driver association and printer
> names: driver are still available and printer are there, provided by CUPS.
>
> Note also that, if i restore driver and printer name, i get back exactly the
> (default) printer configuration as before, so seems that (most of the)
> printer settings are still there.
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