Bug 201024 – Default smb.conf points to wrong printer spool path

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Bug 201024 - Default smb.conf points to wrong printer spool path

Summary:	Default smb.conf points to wrong printer spool path

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	samba (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Simo Sorce
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2006-08-02 07:04 EDT by David Ward
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2007-11-23 15:00:28 EST
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Description David Ward 2006-08-02 07:04:34 EDT

Description of problem:  In the default version of /etc/samba/smb.conf, the
[printers] share is defined with:
   path = /usr/spool/samba
However, this should be:
   path = /var/spool/samba

Using this wrong path setting will prevent SMB printing from functioning.  The
typo is very subtle.  I am not sure if it is corrected when using configuration
GUIs such as system-config-samba, SWAT, etc.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.23a-1.fc5.1

Comment 1 MW 2006-11-09 11:37:47 EST

The same bug exist in FC6 samba-3.0.23c-2 package. Pointing to non-existent
directory is a bug! Why this simple thing cannot be resolved since FC5 edition?
The same erroneus dirctory in item for log file definition in smb.conf have been
corrected already. Why this one haven't?

Comment 2 Simo Sorce 2007-11-23 15:00:28 EST

This should be fixed in latest packages

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