samba - May 1998 - After almost every reboot, Samba printing is DOA under Solaris 2.6...

I just thought that I would put this out there and see if anyone else 
sees this problem with Samba 1.9.18p4 (under Solaris 2.6).
 
It appears that after some reboots of Solaris, Samba printing is partly 
dead. What I see in the logs are below, and what happens is that the
file to be printed is spooled to /var/spool/samba, like always, but
when the lpr command is issued it croaks.  I've been able to play
with it and sometimes find that once I get it working, it is good until
the next reboot (of Solaris).  Now, the return status is 256, which
really doesn't tell me anything as the man page for the Solaris lpr
command states :
 
EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:
     0         Successful completion.
     non-zero  An error occurred.
 
Now, the interesting thing is that I CAN issue the same exact lpr command
by hand and it works fine (after the fact).  The one thing that bothers me is
that
according to the logs, Samba is closing the file AFTER the lpr command is
issued!
I'm wondering if this is just a simple file-locking issue?!?


my current protection settings on the /var/spool/samba directory are as follows
:

drwxrwxrwx   2 root     other        512 May  8 15:25 samba

 
Any ideas are appreciated!
 
-- Rick
 
05/04/1998 14:17:08 Transaction 7224 of length 4146
switch message SMBwrite (pid 12659)
chdir to /
chdir to /var/spool/samba
05/04/1998 14:17:08 write fnum=96 cnum=92 num=4094 wrote=4094
05/04/1998 14:17:08 Transaction 7225 of length 1496
switch message SMBwrite (pid 12659)
05/04/1998 14:17:08 write fnum=96 cnum=92 num=1444 wrote=1444
05/04/1998 14:17:08 Transaction 7226 of length 46
switch message SMBclose (pid 12659)
del_share_modes Deleting share mode entry dev=8388608 ino=25042
del_share_modes num entries = 0, deleting share_mode dev=8388608 ino=25042
fd_attempt_close on file_fd_struct 16, fd = 23, dev = 800000, inode = 61d2,
open_flags = 2, ref_count = 1.
Running the command `lpr -r -Pb201_1718_bay /var/spool/samba/FLOWER.0KnWXI'
gave 256
05/04/1998 14:17:08 flower closed file FLOWER.0KnWXI (numopen=0)
05/04/1998 14:17:08 close fd=-1 fnum=96 cnum=92 (numopen=0)
05/04/1998 14:17:11 Transaction 7227 of length 120
switch message SMBtrans (pid 12659)
chdir to /
chdir to /tmp
trans <\PIPE\LANMAN> data=0 params=36 setup=0

========================== SMB.CONF
==============================;======================= Global Settings
====================================[global]
 
  debuglevel     = 3
  workgroup      = dh
  comment        = Justice Samba Server
  admin users    = root
  log file       = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
  username map   = /usr/local/samba/lib/users.map
  max log size   = 50
  hide dot files = yes
  browseable     = yes
  preserve case  = yes
  short preserve case = yes
  guest account  = guest
  encrypt passwords = yes
  status         = yes
  dead time      = 60
  keep alive     = 60
  oplocks        = false
 
  lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
  locking        = yes
  domain master  = no
  local master   = yes
  preferred master = yes
  os level       = 65
  share modes    = yes
  wins support   = no
  wins server    = 129.193.108.22
  socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=16384 SO_RCVBUF=16384
  security = user
 
  load printers  = no
  printing       = sysv
  print command  = lpr -r -P%p %s
  printcap name  = lpstat
  lpq command    = lpq -P%p
  lprm command   = lprm -P%p %j
 
;============================ Share Definitions ============================= 
[201_1718]
   comment     = Network printer queue for HP Laserjet 5 in Bldg 201/1718 Bay
   browseable  = yes
   available   = yes
   public      = yes
   guest ok    = yes
   writeable   = no
   printable   = yes
   printer name = b201_1718_bay
   printer driver = HP LaserJet 5/5M PostScript
   path        = /var/spool/samba




 
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> Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:42:06 -0700
> From: "Rick Flower" <Rick.Flower@trw.com>
> To: "Samba Listserv" <samba@samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: After almost every reboot, Samba printing is DOA under
Solaris 2.6...
> Message-ID: <006a01bd7ad2$876eac60$0f900481@p02634211.SP.TRW.COM>
> 
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
BTW - Could you submit to the list in plaintext from now on?  It just
makes it easier to read and understand your questions, let alone
answer them...
> It appears that after some reboots of Solaris, Samba printing is
partly=20
> dead. What I see in the logs are below, and what happens is that the
> file to be printed is spooled to /var/spool/samba, like always, but
> when the lpr command is issued it croaks.  I've been able to play
> with it and sometimes find that once I get it working, it is good
until
> the next reboot (of Solaris).  Now, the return status is 256, which
> really doesn't tell me anything as the man page for the Solaris lpr
> command states :
Actually, we've seen something like this under hpux, so I don't think
it's related to your OS.
>   print command  =3D lpr -r -P%p %s
This could be your problem.  Put the full path for the lpr command in
here (e.g., /usr/sbin/lpr, or whatever it is for you).  When your
system reboots, it's probably not setting up the path for printing
adequately.  Are you restarting samba from inetd or from init.d?  (We
use init.d for our production machines, so that's where it happens for
us).

-c

Ok.. I've taken your suggestion and changed the lpr commands so that they
fully
specify the lpr commands (ie. "/usr/ucb/lpr" instead of just
"lpr" under
Solaris 2.6).
I've restarted Samba and it is working fine now -- so far.  I'll keep an
eye
on it and
see if the problem is still lurking around after the next scheduled reboot
(next Sunday).
If the problem does go away, perhaps this needs to be put in the
Printing.doc file.

Also, we are starting our Samba from the /etc/rc2.d startup directory, and
not from
inetd.

P.S.  Sorry about the Mime crud.. I didn't notice until the message already
went out
        (and I got a copy of it through the list) that I sent it with
Mime/HTML formatting.
        I've rectified the situation and all of my listservs are now set for
plain-text only.

>Actually, we've seen something like this under hpux, so I don't
think
>it's related to your OS.
>
>>   print command  =3D lpr -r -P%p %s
>
>This could be your problem.  Put the full path for the lpr command in
>here (e.g., /usr/sbin/lpr, or whatever it is for you).  When your
>system reboots, it's probably not setting up the path for printing
>adequately.  Are you restarting samba from inetd or from init.d?  (We
>use init.d for our production machines, so that's where it happens for
>us).