[Bug 967410] Re: Windows clients cannot connect to shared printers

[Nick_Hill]

This bug is somewhat a deal breaker for 12.04 for me.  A search on
Google will likely show up an array of deal break bugs for Samba 3.6.x.
I've been hoping for a fix to come over the last few weeks, but on
looking at the upstream release notes, there doesn't seem to be a fix in
the pipeline for this, although the most recent update to samba has
many, many bug and security fixes.

Perhaps Andrew Tridgell is busy fire fighting at the moment with the 3.6
series. I understand substantial sections have been re-written and
obviously not yet mature code.

Perhaps distributions need to do their own code quality control, and
perhaps make choices whether to include the latest versions if too
buggy.

I'd suggest the previous 3.5 series of Samba should be included in 12.04
repositories, and available by default at least until samba 3.6 is more
mature.

I wish I had the time, knowledge and resources to help Andrew Tridgell
in his programming efforts on Samba.

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Title:
  Windows clients cannot connect to shared printers

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since installing 12.04 I can no longer connect my windows XP clients to my laser printers on the Ubuntu system using samba. 
  It works on 11.10 using the exact same smb.conf file.  
  I can see the printers from the windows clients, I can select it, I install the drivers locally from the windows pc.  When I click next I get the message "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly or the specified printer has lost its connection to the sever". 

  This is a deal breaker for me.

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