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

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Pierre-Yves Paulus (py at idlum.be):
> Hello Christian,
> 
> No problem for the delay, I myself have been really slow dealing
> with this issue. The fact you come back to me, even late, is much
> appreciated.
> 
> At the end of april, as the problem was continuing to occur, I
> upgraded this server to 3.4 from backports.org. So when I received
> your suggestion, I was already running a more up-to-date version.
> 
> Unfortunately, the same problem happens again with this upgrade done.

Thanks for your comments.

This roughly fits information I got from one talk at SambaXP: some
printer (read "some drivers") still do not behave properly with Samba
and some might even never behave properly.

Still, another attempt that can be done woul be using the unofficial
backport of samba 3.5 to lenny, which we maintain on
http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages/lenny-backports-latest/

Printing code changed significantly between 3.4 and 3.5, according to
Günther Deschner's talk at SambaXP....so there might be some more
improvement again.

And, if problems still appear, then it could be time for a good level
10 debug log...:-)

Of course, I understand this might be hard to do on a production
server. Been there myself too...:-)


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