Bug 2625 – printing configuration...stuck on sysV

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Bug 2625 - printing configuration...stuck on sysV

Summary:	printing configuration...stuck on sysV

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	samba (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported:	1999-05-06 22:36 EDT by luc_lalonde
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-05-24 16:26:49 EDT
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Description luc_lalonde 1999-05-06 22:36:27 EDT

Problem:
The version of Samba that ships with RedHat 6.0 will not
work for sharing printers with Win9x or WinNT.  Even after
specifying the printer as being "bsd" with "/etc/printcap",
it insists on looking for "lpstat" which is used for sysV
printing.
Solution:
I downloaded the rpm from the Samba FTP site and everything
work fine now.

Comment 1 s348842 1999-05-09 20:47:59 EDT

Just uncomment the line "printing = bsd" in /etc/smb.conf

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-24 16:26:59 EDT

fixed in samba-2.0.4b-1, in latest Raw Hide...

Comment 3 ct7 1999-06-17 16:15:59 EDT

I'm experiencing a related problem -- SWAT doesn't work correctly on
my system (RedHat 6.0, samba-2.0.3-8.i386.rpm) because it's trying to
run "/usr/bin/lpstat" (and failing) and printing an error message
before creating the HTML header (see below):

----------------------------------------------
$ lynx -source http://localhost:901/
sh: /usr/bin/lpstat: No such file or directory
HTTP/1.0 401 Authorization Required
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="SWAT"
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>401 Authorization
Required</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>401 Authorization Required</H1>You
must be authenticated to use this service<p></BODY></HTML>
----------------------------------------------

I've also tried this with the latest RPM from rawhide
(samba-2.0.4b-2.i386.rpm) and I get the same results.

The absence or presence of "printing = bsd" in /etc/smb.conf has no
effect on this.

Comment 4 ct7 1999-06-17 17:23:59 EDT

Found my problem -- Samba used (Samba 2.0.2 & RH 5.2) to default to
"printcap name = /etc/printcap" (BSD-style printing) for Red Hat
Linux, but now it defaults to "printcap name = lpstat" (SYSV-style
printing).  Adding "printcap name = /etc/printcap" to my /etc/smb.conf
file fixed this.

Of course, swat still shouldn't be sending shell errors to the TCP
socket!

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