Bug 552310

Summary:	>=net-fs/samba-4.2.0 does not install backend for cups
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Small_Penguin <dark.shadow>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's SAMBA Team <samba>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	harrisl, kripton, printing
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	489762

Description Small_Penguin 2015-06-16 17:12:10 UTC

I am not sure if this is a problem with all samba-4, I have only tested samba-4.2.0.

If you enable the cups USE flag, the backend gets built as /usr/bin/smbspool. But net-print/cups-2.0.2-r2 does not find it:
Printer status: Paused - "Backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb does not exist!"

It can be fixed easily by symlinking it, and it will work again:
ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="cups" emerge samba

Actual Results:  
Samba-4 cups backend not found by cups.

Expected Results:  
Samba-4 cups backend found by cups.

Comment 1 Erik Quaeghebeur 2016-03-30 12:19:34 UTC

With the stabilization of samba-4.2.9, I got hit by this bug, so I can confirm it. Grumpily I wonder why samba-4.2.9 was stabilized with this 9-month old bug still unfixed, as the fix seems to be easy, given that the provided workaround works well. (One should resume the affected printers in the CUPS web interface after creating the symlink.)

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-30 14:08:30 UTC

commit 955e092df75b63c6de9b3295808b44aeaa22e954
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Date:   Wed Mar 30 16:00:41 2016

    net-fs/samba: Fixed smb backend detection by cups (bug #552310)
    
    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>


Sorry. I completely missed that bug. Most likely because I don't use any printers via samba. Should be fixed now. Please re-sync your portage tree and re-emerge samba-4.2.9

Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2017-02-16 23:48:59 UTC

*** Bug 554106 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***