A user who upgraded to OS X Lion could no longer add the Samba hosted printers to his system. In this account the user logon rights are limited by workstation. Checking the Samba logs showed that OS X Lion was sending "workstation" as the NetBIOS name instead of the configured NetBIOS name (same as hostname). The configured hostname is clearly sent to the DHCP server. Once I allowed that user rights from workstation "workstation" the printers worked just fine. I am a bit concerned if the other Mac users (fortunately not too many - never thought I would say that) upgrade - multiple systems sending the same NetBIOS name of "workstation" (assuming they will all break in the same way) may be problematic.
Caldwell, Steve R ERDC-MSRC-MS Contractor
2011-Sep-20 22:00 UTC
[Samba] OS X LION issue with Samba printing
I am facing the same issue in our enterprise environment after upgrading to Lion. I tried re-adding the printer, but every time I send a document to it I get ?Printer paused.? Resuming the printer results in it immediately being ?paused? again. Hope there is a fix released in the near future. Steve