reassign 660651 samba tags 660651 + moreinfo quit Hi Christian,
Christian Andretzky wrote: > Sorry for using the general tag, but I've no idea which of the named packages > is responsible > for the problem. That doesn't make it a general issue. Reassigning to samba, since one has to start somewhere. What versions of samba and cups do you have installed? Can you attach output from "reportbug --template samba"? What does /etc/papersize say? Thanks for writing, and hope that helps, Jonathan > We have a samba server as domain controler and do all printings via > cups. > > The cups server is located on the same machine and printing fom > linux was never a problem. > > For various reasons we set the set the 'cups options' switch in > /etc/smb.conf to empty, so that cups handles the print jobs from the > windows client completely (not only printqueue administration) > > All things work as expected with one big exception. > > I'm unable to set/maintain the samba server default settings for > paper size. I can do other changes in the server settings like > comment or location for the printers with no problems (I can do this > from windows either via menu or via commandline with no problems.) > The result is stored in the ntprinters.tdb But if I try to change > the default paper size for the printer, it only seems to work, but > it is never stored in the ntprinters.tdb. > > The big problem for me is, why (either samba or cups) think, they > have to set the default paper size to letter. > > Nothing in our whole configuration (neither in cups, nor in samba > and in windows also) has paper sizes of the type 'letter'. > > For our users this is a really frustrating and time/paper intensive > problem, because many of them work with remote desktops and > dynamically created printer forwardings from remote printers to > local printers. Don't ask me why, sometimes such printer > forwardings have 'letter' as default paper size. > > By necessity I tried to change ntprinters.tdb with a hex editor. It > seems to work, but after some time my 'A4' setting were overwritten > with letter. > > If you need more details, feel free to ask. > > TIA for Your help. > > Christian > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 6.0.4 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org