samba - Jan 2023 - Print Management Blank After Working for Years

On 23/01/2023 20:49, Aaron de Bruyn wrote:
> Agreed on Microsoft completely fscking things up.
> What do you expect from a component of Windows that still defaults to 
> "a:\" when installing drivers? ?
There's a blast from the past, who remembers the A: and B: floppy drives 
(5 1/4 inch ones at that)
Well, obviously Microsoft LOL
> As if that's not enough, the first "have disk" prompt will
remember your
> previous install location, but the second prompt (i.e. x86 driver)
won't
> default to A:\ or your previous location. On my system it defaults to my 
> virtual DVD drive.
> 
> I can only imagine the absolute cesspool of code...
> 
> 
> I think I'm going to start from scratch on one machine. Stop Samba, 
> delete all the printer tdb files, remove the driver share, etc...
> 
> Then in Windows I'm going to blow away all the policy crap related to 
> printers, and see if I can set it back up.
> 
That will probably work, until it doesn't again ;-)

Rowland

There's got to be more to this...

I stopped samba, cups, and winbind.
I rm -rf'd the my print driver store (under /tank/printing on my systems)
I nuked /var/cache/samba/print*
I started all the services back up.

I closed/opened Print Management, and while it's still suffering from the
whole not-displaying-anything problem from before, if I right-click on the Samba
box and go to Properties and then the Drivers tab....I see drivers listed. Even
though I nuked /tank/printing.

Running "net rpc printer driver" shows old Lexmark drivers installed.
I tried restarting various RPC services and it still shows those drivers.

Where is RPC getting that information?

-A

On Mon Jan 23, 2023, 08:57 PM GMT, Rowland Penny via samba <mailto:samba at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 23/01/2023 20:49, Aaron de Bruyn wrote:
>> Agreed on Microsoft completely fscking things up.
>> What do you expect from a component of Windows that still defaults to
>> "a:\" when installing drivers? ?
>
> There's a blast from the past, who remembers the A: and B: floppy
drives
> (5 1/4 inch ones at that)
> Well, obviously Microsoft LOL
>> As if that's not enough, the first "have disk" prompt
will remember your
>> previous install location, but the second prompt (i.e. x86 driver)
won't
>> default to A:\ or your previous location. On my system it defaults to
my
>> virtual DVD drive.
>>
>> I can only imagine the absolute cesspool of code...
>>
>>
>> I think I'm going to start from scratch on one machine. Stop Samba,
>> delete all the printer tdb files, remove the driver share, etc...
>>
>> Then in Windows I'm going to blow away all the policy crap related
to
>> printers, and see if I can set it back up.
>
> That will probably work, until it doesn't again ;-)
>
> Rowland
>
>
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