network printing with Samba broken for months, no action taken, this is ridiculous

[Tom H]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>
> Take a look at this gem:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/967410
>
> Let me summarize it for you. Network printing with Windows clients has been
> broken for months - since the 12.04 release basically. Everyone using Ubuntu
> 12.04 as a server, on a network with Windows clients, where printing is
> performed (fairly typical application of a Linux server) is impacted.
>
> During all this time, there was no visible attempt at fixing the bug.
> Someone, please tell me this is a joke. No, wait, I just tried to print this
> evening after reinstalling the server, it doesn't work, I know that for a
> fact.
>
> When I re-installed this server, I had the option of using either Ubuntu or
> CentOS. I am kicking myself now for not choosing the non-broken
> distribution.
>
> So, what do I do now? Wait until the bug is fixed, hopefully some time this
> year? Or painfully reinstall the whole thing using CentOS?
>
> Is this sort of situation typical of Ubuntu QA?

It looks like this [1] upstream bug.

Ubuntu or Samba's fault?

Temporary workaround: grant all users print operator rights with "net
rpc rights grant Everyone SePrintOperatorPrivilege -S server -U any
user". If the "anyuser" bug's been dealt with, you'll have to use the
admin user.

1) https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8769