[Samba] Printer desappeared... configuration and backup?

[Luis Peromarta]

From my experience when driver associates or re-associates with printer, printer “shared name” changes.

From a windows client perspective the printer disappears and needs reconnecting.

After re-associating check the shared name.

LP
On 27 May 2024 at 11:10 +0100, Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>, wrote:
>
> Samba AD domain, composed of different DCs and DMs, someone used (also) as print
> server with CUPS, with Point'n'Print (driver loaded server side).
>
>
> This morning in a site all printers but 1 'desappeared': really the don't desappear,
> simply the association between printers and driver get lost someway, so
> printer come back to standard CUPS printer name, so clients say that printer
> desappeared.
>
> I've simply re-associated driver to printers, using the previous printer
> names, and all user get back in job.
>
>
> But...
>
> 1) i've not found the root cause of that; there's some hint/keyword i can
> try to grep in logs to have some clue?
>
> 2) i've not found the config file or 'TDB' that contain printer
> configuration; i remembered something like that happened when i used NT domain, but
> there's a 'printer.tdb' (or something like that) that contain all the conf,
> so backing up and putting in place the correct file suffices.
>
> Where are saved printers association with driver, printer names and
> generally printer configuration in an AD domain? Directly in AD?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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