samba - May 2002 - Bug/documentation error report

Discovered something that cost me an hour or two trying to solve.

In http://localhost:901/swat/help/smb.conf.5.html#PRINTCAPNAME it says:
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To use the CUPS printing interface set printcap name = cups . This should be
supplemented by an addtional setting printing = cups in the [global]
section. printcap name = cups will use the "dummy" printcap created by
CUPS,
as specified in your CUPS configuration file. 
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Well...in that case, "printcap name = cups" makes Samba look for a
file
called "cups" which doesn't exist (maybe some old version of CUPS
created
this file instead of editing /etc/printcap?). Therefore you get errors in
/var/log/messages and Samba can't find the printers you used CUPS to set up.
And that means you spend quite a while looking for a problem that just
happened because you followed directions.

Please someone on the Samba team correct this? 

Thanks!

Greg

On Thu, 30 May 2002, WEBSTER, Greg wrote:
> 
> Discovered something that cost me an hour or two trying to solve.
> 
> In http://localhost:901/swat/help/smb.conf.5.html#PRINTCAPNAME it says:
> -----
> To use the CUPS printing interface set printcap name = cups . This should
be
> supplemented by an addtional setting printing = cups in the [global]
> section. printcap name = cups will use the "dummy" printcap
created by CUPS,
> as specified in your CUPS configuration file. 
> -----
> 
> Well...in that case, "printcap name = cups" makes Samba look for
a file
> called "cups" which doesn't exist (maybe some old version of
CUPS
> created this file instead of editing /etc/printcap?). Therefore you get
> errors in
Did you with the cups libraries?
> /var/log/messages and Samba can't find the printers you used CUPS to
set
> up. And that means you spend quite a while looking for a problem that
> just happened because you followed directions.



cheers, jerry
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