Windows clients cannot connect to shared printers
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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samba |
Fix Released
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Medium
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samba (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Louis Bouchard | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Louis Bouchard | ||
Quantal |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Louis Bouchard |
Bug Description
SRU justification :
It is currently impossible for a USB connected printer shared on Ubuntu 12.04 to be added to a Windows XP / 7 using the "Discover printer" functionality
Impact :
Users cannot use such printers shared by Ubuntu Precise
Fix :
Samba bug #8554 provides a fix for this issue. The fix is part of the Quantal version of Samba (3.6.6)
Test Case : See comment #75 for a detailed description of how to reproduce the bug and confirm the fix
Regression : None expected as the fix is already part of the version used in Quantal
Description of the problem :
Since installing 12.04 I can no longer connect my windows XP clients to my laser printers on the Ubuntu system using samba.
It works on 11.10 using the exact same smb.conf file.
I can see the printers from the windows clients, I can select it, I install the drivers locally from the windows pc. When I click next I get the message "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly or the specified printer has lost its connection to the sever".
This is a deal breaker for me.
tags: | added: rls-mgr-p-tracking |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Aleck (7-admin-santeh-com-ua) |
tags: | removed: rls-mgr-p-tracking rls-q-incoming |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
Changed in samba: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard) |
description: | updated |
Changed in samba: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | Invalid → Fix Released |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in samba (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-done-precise verification-needed-quantal |
Hi Tony
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
If possible, please could you run the following command on the server you are having trouble connecting to:
sudo apport-collect 967410
If this is not possible then the following log files would be helpful:
/var/ log/samba/ log.*
Marking 'Incomplete' pending your response and 'High' until we get more information on what is causing this issue.