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new printing backend

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The dependence of some WinXX applications on a match between printing IDs during a print spool operation and during subsequent print queue query operations led to the development of the new tdb database module. The motivation was to provide a persistant mappping between internal spooling structures and the underlying print system.

For Samba 3.0 a new printing backend that uses an internal print queue database will be implemented. This will solve a number of problems with the existing printing backend, that so far have required nasty hacks to work around.

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