[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#501719: Bug#501719: cups-pdf: doesn't play well with NetWare shares

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
> I think we've three bugs here:
>
> 1) a documentation one about the features of the filesystem for the
>   output directory (this is the original bug)

We cannot anticipate the quirks for every imaginable case of network
filesystem, sorry.

> 2) CUPS-PDF not catching all the Ghostscript errors [2]

Nor should it. A Ghostscript error doesn't imply failure to print. It
could be e.g. failure to embed certain fonts, etc.

> 3) CUPD-PDF not setting the ownership for the output directory when the
>   latter already exists

It's not quite that. The AnonUser is an exception case. One thing I
notice in this thread is that you assume that AnonUser means UID
65534. It doesn't. It's not anonymous in the sense of UNIX user
nobody. Rather, it's in the sense of Samba guest user. When used with
a normal system user it creates the directory and sets ownership, if
it's absent.

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Best Regards,
Martin-Éric