Tom Vandepoel
2002-Jun-12 01:39 UTC
[Samba] spoolss printing: downloading printing preferences in W2K
I have heard something about a 'known bug in 2.2.4' so this might already be known. If so, I just want to get confirmation... I have a new samba 2.2.4 running on a RH7.2 box, running solely as printserv. The spoolss printing functionality is working fine: uploading drivers works ok (aside from a few APW quirks if you change drivers). I'm using CUPS as unix printing backend. The problem is the printing preferences: it does seem these get saved to the samba server after I change them via the APW (with SMB connect as printer admin user). It also seems NT4 clients see the changed preferences, but I they don't seem to be propagated to W2K clients if I connect with a *non* printer admin user. I've seen a comment somewhere in the source code explaining the difference between the 'per-user' printer preferences and the global printing defaults (on W2K); I suspect that is one of the reasons why this is happening. - When I connect as a printer admin user, the APW doesn't 'grey-out' the printing defaults, so I suspect it is able to read them and accordingly set the printing preferences for the user. - When I connect as a non print admin user, the 'printing defaults' are greyed out and it seems the W2K client system can't read those, and thus doesn't set the 'printing preferences' correctly. I guess this has to do with privileges assigned to certain RPC calls. I've tried to find a trace of this in the debug log, but I could not see anything usefull. I did clear the print preferences in the local registry of the W2K client while testing, so it can't have been caching of previous settings. So, is this 'known', or is it something else? Thx, Tom. -- Tom Vandepoel Ubizen Security Architect We Secure e-Business Phone +32 16 28 70 00 http://www.ubizen.com Fax +32 16 28 71 00
Gerald Carter
2002-Jun-16 19:59 UTC
[Samba] spoolss printing: downloading printing preferences in W2K
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Tom Vandepoel wrote:> The problem is the printing preferences: it does seem these get saved to > the samba server after I change them via the APW (with SMB connect as > printer admin user). It also seems NT4 clients see the changed > preferences, but I they don't seem to be propagated to W2K clients if I > connect with a *non* printer admin user.Known (and fixed) bugs in 2.2.5pre1 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--
Klaus Steinberger
2002-Jul-17 22:00 UTC
[Samba] Re: spoolss printing: downloading printing preferences in W2k
> I do have one known bug logged against the spoolss printing system > wrt to dulpex settings and Win2k clients applciations like mozilla.Gerald, please add a second bug to you're list, I've wrote recently about that bug, but maybe the Subject was not taken by you. The Samba 2.2.5 Printing subsystem misses Paper Forms larger than the DIN A2 format, and I was not able to add forms through the "Server Properties" and also I did not found out how to use the addform/setform/enumforms rpcclient commands. This is important for me, as we have to support large printers like the HP Designjet Series on our system. So please add all large forms like in Windows 2000 to the standard forms in Samba printing system, or advice me how to do it. Please refer also to the message in Subject: "Samba 2.2.5 Printing Problem with HP Designjets" Sincerely, Klaus -- Klaus Steinberger Maier-Leibnitz Labor Phone: (+49 89)289 14287 Am Coulombwall 6, D-85748 Garching, Germany FAX: (+49 89)289 14280 EMail: Klaus.Steinberger@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE URL: http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~k2/