samba - Mar 2010 - print jobs >4GB

Dear All,

I've stumbled over a problem with large print jobs coming from windows vista
clients. Jobs above 4GB fail to be printed. The file in the spool
directory grows to
a size a little above 4GB and then printing is aborted. Transfer via
smbclient -c print
works fine and printing from the same windows client to a windows server
also succeeds,
so it seems both server and client basically can handle jobs above 4GB.

Is this a known issue ?

Is there a fix ?

Could it be that a 64bit samba solves the problem ? Current server is
3.4.4 32 bit.

If not -- could someone point me to the source where one would start to
debug
the issue ? I'd be happy to hack on that problem.

Thank you very much.

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:04:07PM +0100, Oncaphillis
wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I've stumbled over a problem with large print jobs coming from windows
vista
> clients. Jobs above 4GB fail to be printed. The file in the spool
> directory grows to
> a size a little above 4GB and then printing is aborted. Transfer via
> smbclient -c print
> works fine and printing from the same windows client to a windows server
> also succeeds,
> so it seems both server and client basically can handle jobs above 4GB.
> 
> Is this a known issue ?
No. Although you should try 3.4.6 to see if this changes
anything (64-bit print fixes are in there).
> Is there a fix ?
Can you get a log with the crient writing around the 4gb mark ?
I'd be interested to see what error messages the server is
generating when it fails.

Raise a bug in bugzilla.samba.org and add the traces
there.

Thanks,

Jeremy.