samba - Dec 2007 - samba upgrades deletes printer driver pointers

Hello,
    I'm running a samba and cups combo on a Centos 5.1 machine. It's
acting
as a lan print server. I used pointprint to upload drivers to the samba 
share so that windows clients could obtain them. This was working fine until 
i'm assuming the upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 on centos, when samba was upgraded. The 
driver paths are still there, drivers, shares, but the .tdb files are not. 
When i try to connect to the printer and download drivers i'm told that the 
samba server does not contain the needed drivers. Short of a reinstall is 
there a way to recover?
Thanks.
Dave.

Michael / Dave,

Since the two of you are having similar problems, I thought I would 
respond to both at the same time.  I cannot tell from your messages if 
your Samba/CUPS setup is similar to mine or not.

I started experiencing this problem on Debian lenny systems at either 
3.0.26a or 3.0.27.  It has continued to 3.0.28.  In my case, it only 
affected systems in which I had compiled CUPS from the sources at 
cups.org.  On the systems where both packages came from Debian, I have 
experienced no problems.  On the affected systems, no amount of 
restarting samba and CUPS would fix the problem.  To bring them back I 
had to reboot the system; and in some cases, there was a lag time after 
the reboot before the printers reappeared.  I do not have an 
explanation; maybe someone else can offer one.

Dale

Michael Heydon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded from 3.0.24 to 3.0.28 on my Slackware 11.0 PDC. I 
> have just noticed several printers have disappeared (they still exist 
> and work in cups but they do not show up in the share listing on the 
> server and users who have them set up cannot print).
>
> Most of the printers are still present, the ones the disappeared have 
> names that are 17 or more characters, the remaining printers all have 
> names of 15 characters or less. All of the clients are XP Pro SP2.
>
> I found an old mailing list message (2003) mentioning a 13 character 
> limit when listing shares, however I don't believe this is the cause 
> as some of the remaining printers have names > 13 characters.
>
> The name length is the only obvious thing that the missing printers 
> have in common. Is there a known difference between .24 and .28 share 
> name/printer name handling? and if so is there a simple way to change 
> it back?

Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>    I'm running a samba and cups combo on a Centos 5.1 machine. It's
> acting as a lan print server. I used pointprint to upload drivers to 
> the samba share so that windows clients could obtain them. This was 
> working fine until i'm assuming the upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 on centos, when 
> samba was upgraded. The driver paths are still there, drivers, shares, 
> but the .tdb files are not. When i try to connect to the printer and 
> download drivers i'm told that the samba server does not contain the 
> needed drivers. Short of a reinstall is there a way to recover?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>