Bug 698400

Created attachment 493609 [details]
Print screen: windows printer properties

Description of problem:

Changing printers settings for printers shared via a Samba/Cups print Server in Windows client side are not being saved.

Example: Paper type is defined and when you click "apply" or "ok" it is not saved.

It was working fine with Samba3.0

Printer details (it is a plotter):

<Printer DVD8>
Info HP Designjet 4000ps - TIC/INFRA-TIC/TIC-ES
Location Vitoria/UFES/Ed. Mata da Praia/Hall/3ºPiso - TIC/INFRA-TIC/TIC-ES
DeviceURI socket://PL000407:9100
State Idle
StateTime 1301942347
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy retry-job
</Printer>


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

samba3x-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64    
samba3x-client-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64
samba3x-common-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64
samba3x-winbind-3.3.8-0.51.el5.x86_64

cups-1.3.7-18.el5.x86_64  
cups-libs-1.3.7-18.el5.i386
cups-libs-1.3.7-18.el5.x86_64
cups-lpd-1.3.7-18.el5.x86_64 
hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5.2.el5.x86_64

How reproducible:
All the time we can try to change the paper type for this printer and it is never saved.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the Printers folder.
2.Right-click on the printer (remoteprinter on cupshost) and select the context menu Properties.
3.Click on the Advanced tab. (If everything is “grayed out,” then you are not logged in as a user with enough privileges).
4. Click on the Printing Defaults... button.
5. Try to change the papaer type.

 
Actual results:
You select the papaer you need but it is not saved. You can not print you job using a wrong papaer. Customer can not print correctly. No error message is logged.

Expected results:
You select the paper type and it is saved. You can print your job using the correct paper as used to do in samba3.0.

Additional info:

The same printer in the same server using samba3.0 was working fine. After update to samba3.x (3.5) the problem related with printer settings changed via Windows appeared.

I've suggested to customer try different drivers and check if behavior changes:


**Windows XP**

PostScript Driver
Version: 	61.094.365.41 (16 Feb 2010)

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=431039&prodNameId=431042&swEnvOID=228&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=pl-28280-5


HP-GL/2 and HP RTL Driver
Version: 	7.10 (16 Feb 2010)

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=431039&prodNameId=431042&swEnvOID=228&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=pl-28111-6



**Windows XP Professional x64 Edition**

HP-GL2, RTL, PS
Version: 	7.10 (30 Apr 2010)

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=431039&prodNameId=431042&swEnvOID=2002&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=pl-58862-3


PostScript Driver
Version: 	61.094.365.41 (16 Feb 2010)

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=431039&prodNameId=431042&swEnvOID=2002&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=pl-51948-4


But it didn't change. Even using a different HP driver, the behavior is the same: paper type can not be defined (customer define the papaer type he wants but it is not saved and customer can not print with wrong paper type).

Also, I suggested some rpcclient commands to ensure that printer has the correct driver assigned. But no success.


I've found two bug reports in bugzilla.samba that reflects the same behavior (just for another model of printer):

Bug 7284 - Printer Settings on Windows Client are not applied 
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7284

Bug 6727 - Printer issues on 3.4.x and 3.5.x 
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6727

Both are fixed in samba.org. 

Customer said that it was working using samba3.0 and Post Script driver. After update to samba3.5 it broken.

There is any chance to inlcude these fixes in samba3.5 shipped with RHEL 5.6? 
Is it a regression?