[SRU] Please backport fix for point&print samba support

[Giovanni Bajo]

Binary package hint: samba

Please backport this fix:
   https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=4508&action=view
   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6568

It is required for point&print support (automatic download of Windows drivers from samba servers). Specifically, the upload procedure is totally broken without this fix.

Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

samba:
  Installed: 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3
  Candidate: 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.3 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
     2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

Recommending wishlist for possible update.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the bug report, Ill take a look at this.

Regards
chuck

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the bug report. This patch has made it in to lucid. This would be a good candidate for an SRU.

Regards
chuck

[Giovanni Bajo (giovannibajo)]

Any action I should take to request inclusion in a SRU?

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

No it should be brought up in the meeting tomorrow.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Statement of Impact: The Samba shipped with karmic was shipped with a bug that prevented users to download printer drivers from a PDC.

How this has been resolved: This bug has been described in https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6568 and has been fixed upstream in Samba and for lucid. I have backported this patch for Karmic.

How to reproduce:

1. Setup a samba PDC.
2. Setup Samba for printer driver downloads:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html#id2626653

There should not be any regressions with this patch.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Regardds
chuck

[John Dong (jdong)]

Straightforward patch, definitely looks SRU-worthy. ACK from ubuntu-sru.

Chuck, how do you want to handle this vs #462172? One after the other or both at the same time?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted samba into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package samba - 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.5

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samba (2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.5) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/fix-libsmb-keepalive-packets.patch: Fix winbind authentication
    due to an invalid NTML2 signature. (LP: #479955)
    (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6646)
  * debian/patches/fix-samba-point-and-print.patch: Allow automatic download
    of printer drivers from a Samba PDC (LP: #500457)
    (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6568)
  * debian/patches/fix-too-many-openfiles.patch: When connecting to a Windows
    7 share users will get an error message "Too many open files are in use"
    after a certain number of files are copied. (LP: #462172 )
    (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6837)
  * debian/patches/fix-win98-failed-connect.patch: Allow win98 clients to
    connect a samba server. Users will get an "Error 66" message. (LP: #502878)
    (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6551)
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:03:50 -0500