[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#462543: samba: No more CUPS printing any more

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:08:04PM +0100, Elmar Haneke wrote:
>> Can you check what you currently
>> have for your 'dos charset', 'unix charset', and 'display charset' settings
>> in smb.conf?

> unix charset = iso8859-15

> "dos charset" and "display charset" are not set.

> Is it realy required to rename files on disk to resolve this problem?

Since it appears to be the 'display charset' which governs interaction with
CUPS, probably not.

>> Your 'display charset' value may be set to 'LOCALE'.  I see that you filed
>> the bug report from a UTF-8 locale, but is it possible that other users on
>> your system (e.g., root) are still using an ISO8859-1 locale?

> How can I check this?

> Is it sufficient to reconfigure locales package and reboot afterwards?

When you sent your initial bug report, reportbug listed "de_DE.UTF-8" as
your locale.  Was this on the machine where you experienced the problem?  If
so, it should be sufficient for you to run:

  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 /etc/init.d/samba restart

to test whether this fixes your problem.  If it does, then I guess you need
to reconfigure your locale so that the change is persistent across reboots.

Thinking about this report, it's my opinion that this is a bug in Samba.  We
know that CUPS 1.3.5 and above require UTF-8, so Samba should always use
UTF-8 when talking to CUPS, regardless of the display charset setting.  If
you can confirm that the above changes fix the problem for you, I'll forward
the report upstream.

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