samba - Sep 2008 - long delay accessing print properties on client

I've seen a proposed fix for this problem

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-September/110571.html

and it has no influence on my installation.

client workstations: XP Pro SP 2
number of clients: about 500
server O/S: ubuntu hardy 8.04

ha1 ~: uname -a
Linux ha1 2.6.24-19-xen #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 21:08:51 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ha1 ~: dpkg -l samba*
||/ Name           Version        Description
ii  samba          3.0.28a-1ubunt a LanManager-like file and printer server
fo
ii  samba-common   3.0.28a-1ubunt Samba common files used by both the server
a

I have some drivers that take 30 to 60 seconds to access the properties from
the client; typically seem to be Xerox and a few HP Designjet drivers. I
have other drivers, Ricoh as an example, that do not exhibit this behaviour
and function properly. I have other installations with different server O/S
(Open Suse 10.2) and older versions of Samba with the same problem.

The samba process on the server ramps the CPU up to 90+% when the client
operation is taking place.

Help / suggestions is much appreciated.

Greg

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:06:18PM -0600, Greg Saunders
wrote:
> I've seen a proposed fix for this problem
> 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-September/110571.html
> 
> and it has no influence on my installation.
> 
> client workstations: XP Pro SP 2
> number of clients: about 500
> server O/S: ubuntu hardy 8.04
> 
> ha1 ~: uname -a
> Linux ha1 2.6.24-19-xen #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 21:08:51 UTC 2008 x86_64
GNU/Linux
> 
> ha1 ~: dpkg -l samba*
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> ii  samba          3.0.28a-1ubunt a LanManager-like file and printer server
> fo
> ii  samba-common   3.0.28a-1ubunt Samba common files used by both the
server
> a
> 
> I have some drivers that take 30 to 60 seconds to access the properties
from
> the client; typically seem to be Xerox and a few HP Designjet drivers. I
> have other drivers, Ricoh as an example, that do not exhibit this behaviour
> and function properly. I have other installations with different server O/S
> (Open Suse 10.2) and older versions of Samba with the same problem.
> 
> The samba process on the server ramps the CPU up to 90+% when the client
> operation is taking place.
> 
> Help / suggestions is much appreciated.
Fixed in 3.0.32 I think. Definately fixed in 3.2.x.

Jeremy.