samba - Jun 2003 - Slow printing problem

I have a small network running Slackware 9.0 and Samba 2.2.8a server. This was a
replacement for a single Winnt 4.0 server. I have configured a single printer on
the system (the printer is  a HP Officejet) and am printing to it via the lpt0
port. Printing works fine, however on the older machines on the network (both
Winnt Workstation and Win95/98 pc's) it takes a very long time to spool and
then print any jobs to this printer. I am manually installing the driver on the
clients and on most clients in fact I left the existing print driver in place
and simply pointed it to the new printer share. On the old Winnt 4.0 system the
printing was quick. Once the job actually starts printing though it prints
quickly and prints fine with the right quality. New machines (p3 and amd
athlons) print quickly to the printer on both. I believe that it has something
to do with the way the older machines are spooling the job however as the only
thing that has changed is the server I am not sure if there are not things I can
change on it to speed up spooling of jobs. The old server and new server have
the same name. Attached is my smb.conf file.

Thanks
Evan


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Is the same driver installed on all machines?
This sort of slow down sounds like a driver problem.
Have you looked at how much time is involved in merely tranferring the job
to linux? If you are not using cups, you can just change the print command
to something like printing command = echo printed %s at `date` > /tmp/junk
Joel