[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#566245: Bug#566245: samba: On wxp client, network printer switches itself to "Use printer offline", this cannot be reversed afterwards except by deleting/reinstalling printer

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Pierre-Yves Paulus (py at idlum.be):

> On a windows client, the printer switches itself to "Use printer offline"
> with no user action. It seems to happen randomly (I've not been able to
> locate a pattern). When trying to disable that option (eg re-enable sending
> jobs to the printer), a message 'Error while trying to execute this
> command"  appears in the lower right corner of the job list window (error
> message freely translated by myself as the workstation is using a french
> version of windows).
> 
> Each time one tries to disable this "Use printer offline" option by clicking
> it in the file menu, the following message appears in samba's logs:


There is about zero chances that this problem is investigated by
Debian packagers. It would better be checked with upstream.

What you can do if you want to see it progress is trying to reproduce
it with a more recent version of samba (for instance one from
backports.org).

Also check the printer settings on the client side. Many printer
drivers use extended features that are only working properly when the
server is running Windows. Also try fiddling up with settings related
to the server "talking" to the client. By experience, some things may
change in that matter.

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