[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#462543: Same problem: samba cannot access cups printers

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:47:53PM +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
> Package: samba
> Version: 1:3.0.28a-3
> Followup-For: Bug #462543

> I have just upgraded to the latest samba in lenny and I cannot access any
> cups printers.

Well, 3.0.28a-3 is not the latest samba in lenny; but I don't believe this
bug has been fixed upstream in later versions either.

> If I include the lines:

>    load printers = yes
>    printing = cups
>    printcap name = cups

> in my smb.conf then no printers are set up.  The smb.log file shows no
> obvious errors.

> If I change the lines to read:

>    load printers = yes
>    printing = cups
>    printcap name = /var/run/cups/printcap

> then the following error is repeated continuously in log.smbd:

> [2008/06/12 23:18:29, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_queue_get(801)
>   Unable to get jobs for ipp://localhost/printers/Epson_R265 - client-error-bad-request
> [2008/06/12 23:18:29, 3] printing/printing.c:print_queue_update_internal(1152)
>   print_queue_update_internal: 0 jobs in queue for Epson_R265

The bug you're following up to describes a workaround for this problem.  Did
you try it?

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