Package: samba Version: 2:3.6.6-3 Severity: serious After upgrading a printer server from squeeze to wheezy, I could no longer print from a client already running wheezy using the smb protocol.
To reproduce this I installed minimal squeeze and wheezy systems under QEMU/KVM and did the following in both of them: apt-get install cups cups-pdf samba samba-common-bin adduser --gecos "B. L. User" --disabled-password bluser smbpasswd -a bluser (passwd: abc) That was the server part. The client was my wheezy personal computer and it had a printer pointing to the "PDF" virtual printer using the usual smb mechanism: DeviceURI smb://bluser:abc@qemu/PDF This printer was configured as a "Generic PDF printer". The result: * It works out of the box if the server is running squeeze. * It does not work at all if the server is running wheezy. In both cases the smb.conf file was the default. By using snapshot.debian.org, I was able to determine that this works: deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20111128/ sid main contrib samba 2:3.5.11~dfsg-4 cups-pdf 2.6.1-3 cups 1.5.0-12 and this does not work: deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20111129/ sid main contrib samba 2:3.6.1-2 cups-pdf 2.6.1-3 cups 1.5.0-12 [ Note: The samba packages are the ones that changed from 20111128 to 20111129 and that's the reason why this report is against samba, but of course, I could be wrong here ]. Trying to downgrade to samba 2:3.5.11~dfsg-4 didn't work because of Bug#650541 (kerberos related link error). Another thing which I tried was to install all the recommends in the server: apt-get install --fix-policy --install-recommends but nothing changed. Then I set "log level = 3" and searched for this error message: [2012/12/08 16:39:45.167182, 3] rpc_server/spoolss/srv_spoolss_nt.c:1904(_spoolss_OpenPrinterEx) access DENIED for printer open and finally found a fix here: http://www.df.lth.se/~jokke/samba_printer.php which is to put this option in smb.conf: [printers] use client driver = yes It is likely that this fix is not a good fix for everybody and I'm not even sure that this is a bug in samba, but I really believe that cups-pdf should work out of the box in wheezy, hence the serious severity. Of course, feel free to downgrade or reassign as appropriate. If this may not be fixed properly I would appreciate that it's documented in /usr/share/doc/samba/NEWS.Debian.gz or any other suitable place (like wheezy release notes). Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
