samba - Dec 2004 - Slow Print Dialogue Box

I have a Question I am running Samba 3.10 on Debian with OpenLdap
Backend as a Print Server to XP Client Machines without SP2.  When
printing from Microsoft Word it takes 10 -15 sec. for the Dialogue box
to come up.  However, in troubleshooting this problem i found that if
i  edit the smb.conf and add my user account to the admin user under
the [Global] Section.  The problem goes away.  Does anyone know why
this happens only when i am not an admin on in the smb.conf?  Does
samba do thing diffrent to printers when the user is an admin versus
not being one?  I saw another post i regrads to this problem
indicating to delete devmode registry keys however i never have such
key.  Any help would be great.  Thanks!

Isaiah

The slow print dialog had been a problem for quite some time. 3.0.9 seems to
have fixed it, and Debian Sarge updated to 3.0.10 recently which it seems fine
as well. Now, I run on Win2K SP4 vs WinXP.
There are various XP specific issues, but those are thanks to XP mostly! ;-)

Best would be to crank Samba logging up to 10, have WinXP shut down, wipe the
workstation log on the Samba server, restart Samba, allow WinXP to boot up,
logon to XP, Notepad / File / Print, wait for
the dialog to pop, and then quickly copy off the workstation Samba log and see
what you caught. If you can do this on a smallish isolated network, wipe all of
the samba logs and copy all of them off
as soon as the print dialog finally comes up. Then if there is something ending
up in the smbd or nmbd log you have a better shot at seeing it.

Having DNS happy is critical
Having WINS happy is critical
If the printers are CUPS / LAN attached then DNS to those devices is critical

Mess up any of these and bits of code go off into loopy land trying to handshake
all of the bits of technology together.

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

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