William Enestvedt
2004-Feb-02 16:38 UTC
[Samba] Slow printing on Solaris 8/Samba 3.0.1 and oplopcks
I have Samba 3.0.1 running on Solaris 8 on a 4-CPU SunFire V480m and printing to a Printronix 5005B line printer is pretty slow -- as in five nmostly-empty 9"x5" pages per minute. (I only share out three local print queues and no filesystems on this Sun to Windows XP and some 98 clients.) I would like to speed up the throughput, but I'm seeing a couple of errors. First, I found a suggestion on the web to add the following to my smb.conf: socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_SNDBUF=16384 SO_RCVBUF=16384 read raw = yes write raw = yes oplocks = no Unfortunately, I get errors when I have the last item enabled; they say "Invalid combination of parameters for service <name_of_my_printer_queue>. Level II oplocks can only be set if oplocks are also set." Should I bother pursuing the oplocks option if I'm not serving out files? Thanks for the suggestion. -wde -- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI