[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#790496: Bug#790496: SOLVED

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu Jul 30 06:28:42 UTC 2015



On 28/07/15 17:47, Roger Howard wrote:
> 
> The problem was a line "disable spoolss = yes" in the smb.conf file. It
> was included because of incorrect information in a HOWTO which suggested
> it was necessary to prevent loading printers other than those specified
> in the configuration.
> 
> This erroneous line did not cause problems for Debian wheezy running
> Samba version 3.6.6 but prevented access the printer share when Debian
> was upgraded to jessie and running Samba 4.1.17
"disable spoolss" is a new option, introduced in Samba 4. Samba ignores
unknown settings in the config, though it will print an error in the logs.

spoolss is the print subsystem, so if disabling it is the wrong thing to
do if you want printing..

Cheers,

Jelmer

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