[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#431696: Bug#431696: samba: segfault when adding a printer driver

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Dietrich Clauss wrote:
> > > Maybe the file was in use by some windows program and thus it was not
> > > available for others.  I dont know how to check this in windows.

> > This could only be about the file on the server; it's samba trying to open
> > the file, and samba isn't going to try to open files on the client.
> > What are the permissions on the /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86 directory? 

> 2755 root.lpadmin

> > Note that the existing file on your filesystem is W32X86/3/SETUP32.DLL, but
> > the error mesage is from trying to open W32X86/SETUP32.DLL.

> There is no file W32X86/SETUP32.DLL.  Samba seems want to create it
> ("Can't open new file [W32X86/SETUP32.DLL]"); according to the
> permissions, it definitely can.  The permissions of the files in
> /var/lib/samba/printers are always <someuser>.lpadmin 664 and 775 the
> directories.

Well, the permissions you cited above don't allow writing by the lpadmin
group.  Typo, or the source of the bug?

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