samba - Dec 2007 - 3.0.24 to 3.0.28 upgrade, lost printers (name length?)

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?

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*Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
michaelh@jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh@jaswin.com.au>

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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?
I have a note to myself about the 13 character limit, and I believed it
was for older operating systems (far older than anything you have).

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