Samba Print Server documentation has contradiction

Bug #1033033 reported by silverrope
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Bug Description

Firstly, there is a contradiction in the Samba Print Server documentation. It says that in the [Printers] section in smb.conf the following parameter should be set:
browsable = yes

However, even if one changes this, if one tests the parameters using testparm -s, the parameter appears as
browsable = no

The instructions in the documentation is then contradictory. I found out that that if the parameter printable is set to yes, then browsable parameter always becomes no.

So the question is which is correct:
browsable = yes
printable = no

or

browsable = no
printable = yes

Both parameters cannot be yes according to testparm.

Secondly, in any case, what has been written for the Samba Printer Server documentation is insufficient to get it to work. Please note that the documentation has not changed since 10.04 (that means at least three years). Please fix this and show the correct parameters that works. Otherwise Ubuntu can never be used as a print server for a Windows network.

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silverrope (srope01) wrote :

Is anyone going to address this?

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