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...(3.0.7-2.FC1). Everything was working before the upgrade, but i immediately started noticing some peculiarities after restoring the samba files (/etc/samba, /var/cache/samba) and starting samba. The problem manifests by the following: - when i double click on a workstation printer created using point&print, the header of the window shows the ip number of the server instead of the server name. The printer description on the local printers&faxes folder is right, though: ex: "laser on jimmy". - creating a new printer using point&print, the new printer gets a description as...

Hi all, Samba 3.0.7 and using CUPS printing. I am logged in as root to an XP Pro system, I have used the APW to install the XP drivers to all of my printers. I went to Shared and clicked "Additional Drivers" and checkmarked both 9x and NT/2K boxes. Using drivers straight from the HP website, the 9x driver installs fine, but it seems like I can't get any NT/2K drivers to

...any error/denied or similar messages (or simply smth that would stand out of the usual) in the log files (loglevel 3). I can install the drivers on the WS by hand and use samba just for the printer queue fine (per-machine printer). But since i will have to install more printers i wanted to use the point&print method since it saves a lot of hassle. The printer is a NRG DSc424 and im using Windows XP. The same thing works fine with the official PCL6 drivers and i might have to settle for that in the end but the RPCS drivers give a better quality. It's not a permission problem either, using...

...ny attempt > to read this file will fail with an "access denied" error. > > The problem occurs as Samba allows clients using the UNIX > extensions (which are also turned on by default) to create > symlinks on remotely mounted shares on which they have write > access that point to any path on the file system. > > This is by design, as applications running on UNIX clients > may have good reasons to create symlinks anywhere on the > filesystem they have write access that point to local files > (such as /etc/passwd). > > UNIX clients will resolve these l...