samba - Mar 2006 - "load printers = Yes" produces working but invisible printers

Hi,
I am running samba 3.0.21c (Sernet packages on Debian Sarge) and trying
to automatically share cups printers via "load printers = Yes"

- Printing seems to work if you install the printers on the client by
   calling con2prt.exe, but
- the printers do not appear as shares when   browsing the network
   neighbourhood or calling "net view \\servername" on the client.
- They do appear, if I include an explicit section for each printer
   in smb.conf

Bug or feature?

My configuration options:
[global]
   ...
   printcap name = cups
   cups server = localhost
   printing = CUPS
   load printers = Yes
   ...
[printers]
   comment = SMB print spool
   path = /var/spool/samba
   guest ok = yes
   printable = yes
   browseable= yes
   use client driver = no


Kind regards,
Wolfgang Ratzka

I had the same problem with 3.0.14a, it seems that clients don't like
long names or names with certain characters in them. The printer names
were made by the gnome-cups-add gui tool and went something like
Manufacturer-Model-Postscript-(recomended), without an option to change
the name. Windoze boxen were unable to see the printers as were
gnome-cups-add's on other linux boxen. I edited printers.conf and made
the names short and alphanumeric and all the affected clients became
able to see the printers. As far as I remember they still didn't show up
in an smbclient -L, but that doesn't matter to me as printing works just
fine now. HTH

On O , 2006-03-07 at 20:18 +0100, Wolfgang Ratzka wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running samba 3.0.21c (Sernet packages on Debian Sarge) and trying
> to automatically share cups printers via "load printers = Yes"
> 
> - Printing seems to work if you install the printers on the client by
>    calling con2prt.exe, but
> - the printers do not appear as shares when   browsing the network
>    neighbourhood or calling "net view \\servername" on the
client.
> - They do appear, if I include an explicit section for each printer
>    in smb.conf
> 
> Bug or feature?
> 
> My configuration options:
> [global]
>    ...
>    printcap name = cups
>    cups server = localhost
>    printing = CUPS
>    load printers = Yes
>    ...
> [printers]
>    comment = SMB print spool
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    guest ok = yes
>    printable = yes
>    browseable= yes
>    use client driver = no
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Wolfgang Ratzka