samba - Mar 1998 - Weird problem with Windows NT 4 Workstation and Samba PDC

hi allan,

i saw your posting regarding people getting annoyed with samba not
working, and the clue to what you are doing is that you report the machine
saying it is an NT 5.4 Primary Domain Controller.  i then looked further
down, and you are using 1.9.18p3 with -DNTDOMAIN compiled.

this will *not* work.  it is *vital* that you do not use -DNTDOMAIN in a
production environment with the main branch: you *will* get the kinds of
problems that you describe, as development of this code stopped at
1.9.18p12 and i went onto a separate cvs branch - BRANCH_NTDOM.

if you absolutely must have NT Primary Domain Controller functionality in
a production environment, then use the cvs tag of BRANCH_NTDOM and see
http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html.

if you do not need PDC functionality, then recompile 1.9.18p3 _without_
-DNTDOMAIN and the experimental (and plain wrong, in places) code will be
totally removed.

otherwise, i recommend that you watch for developments on the various
samba lists (samba, samba-ntdom, samba-technical, samba-announce) for
information on when production quality PDC support and documentation is
available. 

best regards,

luke (samba team)

p.s i'm still not on the samba digest: i'm on samba-technical,
samba-cvs,
samba-ntdom though.  hope everyone's having fun on samba@samba.anu.edu.au!

<a href="mailto:lkcl@samba.anu.edu.au" > Luke Kenneth Casson
Leighton  </a>
<a href="http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network
Development </a>
<a href="http://www.samba.co.uk"       > Samba and Network
Consultancy </a>

Hello,

I read a long time ago that it was possible to include the "printer
driver=" statement in the /etc/printcap file. It might have
required a patch to samba.

Does anyone know how to do it because I've completely forgotton where I read
it :-)

Cheers,

Mark.

"Steve Snyder" <ssnyder@indy.net> wrote:
> Using Samba v1.9.18p3 on a Linux system, I find that that any print
> jobs sent to a shared printer results in doubled files.  It's not
> that 2 copies of the print job are actually *printed*, it's just a
> matter of dual spool files being created.
This looks like a feature of your lp system rather than a samba
thing.  If samba was to submit the job to the lp system twice then
one would expect it to print twice.

Does linux printing have mode/interface scripts?  If so check to
see if the printer to which you are printing from samba has been
set up to process the output in some way and then:

    re-submit the job with different options or,
    submit the job to a different queue.
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