[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#496501: cups: samba can't see printers with iso-8859-1

[Kevin Mitchell]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1
Severity: normal

Upon a fresh boot, samba can see all printers fine as evidenced by

#rpcclient  -c enumprinters localhost

However, if samba is restarted, I see the following message repeated 5 times in /var/log/cups/error_log:

E [22/Aug/2008:02:51:12 -0700] Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"!

and the command above returns no printers. I found that it was necessary to add

   display charset = UTF8

into /etc/samba/smb.conf to force samba to use utf8 even if the system default is iso-8859-1. 

That seems to fix things. I would speculate that the reason samba sees
printers on boot is that it is started before the default system locale
is applied. 

It would be nice if the above fix were not necessary.

Kevin


-- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT
prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300,
'stable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser               3.108              add and remove users and groups
ii  cups-common           1.3.8-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22             Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript           8.62.dfsg.1-3      The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libdn 0.6.23-2           Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                 2.7-13             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2              1.3.8-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2         1.3.8-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.2.1-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26           2.4.1-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2         2.4.10-3           OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g              1.0.1-2            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.23+nmu1        library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1               1.2.1-7.3          OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.2-19             Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules          5.10.0-11.1        Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf-u 0.8.4-1.1          PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                1:3.2.7-8          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert              1.0.22             simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils           0.6.23-2           Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cups-client           1.3.8-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20080211-3.1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient             2:3.2.0-4          a LanManager-like simple client fo

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                1.3.8-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint  <none>           (no description available)
ii  cups-pdf                2.4.8-2          PDF printer for CUPS
ii  foomatic-db             20080211-2       OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                   2.8.6-2          HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd