Samba 4 seems unable to fetch lpstat printers

Jun 20, 2017 1:46PM

Hello all.

Recently we applied 119758-38 + 39 to some of our Solaris 10 x86 boxes.

These servers offer Samba shares of the lp printers and have successfully being doing so on Version 3.6.25.

119758 raised Samba Version 4.4.13, at which point the printers are no longer being offered.

smb.conf has the following, unchanged from out previous working configuration:

printcap name = lpstat

# load printers = yes

printing = sysv

Samba 4 is reporting the following:

[2017/06/20 12:05:03.494711, 0] ../lib/util/become_daemon.c:124()

STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connections

[2017/06/20 12:05:03.497239, 3] ../source3/printing/queue_process.c:335()

start_background_queue: Starting background LPQ thread

[2017/06/20 12:05:03.503291, 1] ../source3/printing/printer_list.c:234()

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