[Bug 482836] Re: Samba shared printers not accessible under Vista and Windows7

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Samba shared printers not accessible under Vista and Windows7

Status in samba:
  Unknown
Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: samba

  1. Ubuntu release:

  #uname -a
  Linux maedchentank 2.6.31-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 09:55:13 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  # lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
  Release:        9.10

  2. involved packages:

  ~# apt-cache policy cups
  cups:
    Installiert: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1
    Kandidat: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1
  ...
  ~# apt-cache policy samba
  samba:
    Installiert: 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1
    Kandidat: 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1
  ...

  3. What should happen:
  Connecting to shared printers on my ubuntu 9.10 server from within windows vista64 and windows7 brings up the windows printer dialog - as is happened in ubuntu 9.04.

  4, What happens instead

  Connecting to shared printers on my ubuntu 9.10 server from within windows vista(64 Bit) and windows7 (64 Bit)  brings a "Druckerverbindung kann nicht hergestellt werden - 0x0000000d" on Windows (exact english translation not known - should be something like "unable to connect to printer - 0x0000000d". Windows isn't telling more. The Windows Support Entry in the web about this error number is compete nonsense.
  However Windows XP (32 Bit) clients connect without a problem.
  Note that exactly the same Vista (64 Bit) machine (even without any LSA-Manipulations within the registry (as it is still recommanded here and there)) did work with the same smb.conf on the same server with ubuntu 9.04 (it was updated to 9.10 - meaning it was not a fresh install).
  Typical folder shares on the server are no problem for vista and windows7.

  BTW: Trying to get a clean new smb file is not easy because of this
  dpkg-reconfigure samba crash

  # dpkg-reconfigure samba
   * Stopping Samba daemons                                                                                                    [ OK ]
     [doing stuff within the nc gui until the "create /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb?" Question and then...]
  sed: -e Ausdruck #1, Zeichen 143: Unbekannte Option für `s'

  However I am sure to have a clean smb.conf. The most interesting
  section is this (and I already tried to "open" it up as much as it may
  be helpful)

  --------------------------------------------------
  load printers = yes

     printing = cups
     printcap name = cups

  [...]

  [printers]
     comment = All Printers
     browseable = no
     path = /var/spool/samba
     printable = yes
     guest ok = yes
     read only = yes
     create mask = 0700
  #  inserted ny me
     use client driver = yes

  # Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
  # printer drivers

  # disabling or not disabling - the [print$] Section is of course not
  changig anything here

  # ----------------------------------
  # [print$]
  #   comment = Printer Drivers
  #   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
  #   browseable = yes
  #   read only = yes
  # #   guest ok = no
  # # changed by me
  #     guest ok = yes
  # ---------------------------------

  [...]
  --------------------------------------------------

  Security levels is users. Password backend is tdbsam.
  Users trying to connect to the printers (2 printers - one usb and cups-pdf) are already connected to shared folders on the server successfully (so it is not a credentials problem from this side). They are also known to samba thanks to smbpasswd.

  On the cups side both printers are set to shared. So anything should
  just work like it does perfectly with Windows XP Clients (32Bit)
  within the same network or like unter Ubuntu 9.04 with the same
  configuration (also with vista64 Clients there).

  I've tried alot about this with no success.
  I was surprised not to find a bug report about this, because, if you google about "karmic printer vista" you find a lot forum questions about this - and they all try a lot even unrelated things to get rid of this - but the issue remains unsolved.
  Like here: <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8263192>

  Sidenote: Also strange: After starting/restarting the whole server,
  all samba folder shares work perfectly - but not even one printer is
  showing up (at least not on the vista/win7 clients here).  Doing a
  "/etc/init.d/samba restart" on the server makes them visible. This
  can't be a sort of "late usb printer detection" issue, as cups-pdf
  shouldn't be affected by such things. I did not investigate much into
  this however.

  Regards,
  Herr Irrtum.

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