Marco Gaiarin
2024-May-27 09:58 UTC
[Samba] Printer desappeared... configuration and backup?
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. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bont?, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) marco.gaiarin(at)lanostrafamiglia.it t +39-0434-842711 f +39-0434-842797 Dona il 5 PER MILLE a LA NOSTRA FAMIGLIA! http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/index.php/it/sostienici/5x1000 (cf 00307430132, categoria ONLUS oppure RICERCA SANITARIA)
Luis Peromarta
2024-May-27 10:35 UTC
[Samba] Printer desappeared... configuration and backup?
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. > > -- > dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 > Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ > Polo FVG - Via della Bont?, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) > marco.gaiarin(at)lanostrafamiglia.it t +39-0434-842711 f +39-0434-842797 > > Dona il 5 PER MILLE a LA NOSTRA FAMIGLIA! > http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/index.php/it/sostienici/5x1000 > (cf 00307430132, categoria ONLUS oppure RICERCA SANITARIA) > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba