Hello, I recently upgraded my samba servers from samba-1.9.18p8 to samba-2.2.2, and a problem arised for one of my NT users: The "print to file" behaviour is now different when a file is opened from a network drive or from a local disk. - With a local drive (or with a network drive connected on a old 1.9.18 server), a non-Microsoft software such as Netscape Communicator 4.7 (or Acroread 4 or PaintShopPro 4.14) will ask for the output filename when I select print/print to file and click OK. - With a network drive connected to a samba-2.2.2 server, no filename is asked, and the program writes the output to a file called FILE:* in the directory of the opened filed, without any question. It makes no difference whether the NT user and machine belong or not to a PDC. The problem doesn't occur with Microsoft software like Office 97 or Internet Explorer 5.5: I am always asked for a filename when I print to file, not depending on the drive where the opened file is stored. I haven't changed my smb.conf between the 2 versions, and I can't find the parameter involved in this new behaviour. I have already tried to set "disable spoolss = yes" but it didn't change anything. And I didn't get any other idea from the samba list, where I posted this last week. So I wonder if this is a bug, as I find the output name for the printed file (FILE:*) looks like a "not interpreted" function. Can you help me? Best regards. Anne Le Guellec - Herberts
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, alg wrote:> I recently upgraded my samba servers from samba-1.9.18p8 to samba-2.2.2, > and a problem arised for one of my NT users: The "print to file" > behaviour is now different when a file is opened from a network drive or > from a local disk. > > - With a local drive (or with a network drive connected on a old 1.9.18 > server), a non-Microsoft software such as Netscape Communicator 4.7 (or > Acroread 4 or PaintShopPro 4.14) will ask for the output filename when I > select print/print to file and click OK. - With a network drive > connected to a samba-2.2.2 server, no filename is asked, and the program > writes the output to a file called FILE:* in the directory of the opened > filed, without any question.Anna, Using the latest SAMBA_2_2 cvs code, an Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 (tried both on NT 4.0 SP6a and Win2k SP2), i was unable to reproduce this behavior. I tested printing to a file against both a Samba served network printer and a local printer. I was always prompted for the output file name. Can you retest your problem against the latest 2.2 cvs code to verify my findings? Thanks. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--