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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index d3ad3bd360f..be09c558148 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -43,6 +43,39 @@ o Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org> * BUG 9766: Cache name_to_sid/sid_to_name correctly. +Note about upgrading from older versions: +----------------------------------------- + +It is still the case that there are printing tdbs (ntprinting.tdb, ntforms.tdb, +ntdrivers.tdb) which are in latin1 or other encodings. When updating from +Samba 3.5 or earlier to Samba 3.6 or 4.0 these tdbs need to be migrated to our +new registry based printing management. This means during the migration we +also need to do charset conversion. This can only been done manually cause we don't +know in which encoding the tdb is. You have to specify the correct code page +for the conversion, see iconv -l and Wikipedia [1] for the available codepages. +The mostly used one is Windows Latin1 which is CP1252. + +We've extended the 'net printing dump' and 'net printing migrate' commands to +define the encoding of the tdb. So you can correctly view the tdb with: + + net printing dump encoding=CP1252 /path/to/ntprinters.tdb + +or migrate it with e.g.: + + net printing migrate encoding=CP1252 /path/to/ntprinters.tdb + +If you migrate printers we suggest you do it in the following order. + +ntforms.tdb +ntdrivers.tdb +ntprinting.tdb + +Don't forget to rename, move or delete these files in /var/lib/samba after the +migration. + +[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page + + ###################################################################### Reporting bugs & Development Discussion ####################################### |