I have a problem going on here, that I hope someone out there may be able
to help solve. We run SAMBA 1.16p11 under Solaris 2.5 to serve about 60
Win95 clients. Thirty of these clients are printing to three HP laserjet
printers, each printer with a JetDirect card which uses lpsched on the
Solaris server as their print spooler. These spools have been defined as
BSD-type devices under sysv's lpsystem command, and they print perfectly,
with one small exception.
My problem is this.... we have print jobs which are generated from an
external source, and print jobs which are generated internally, through
users printing from their desktop machines to these network printers,
through SAMBA.
When multiple jobs come in from the external source, (or, are generated
directly on the Unix server), everything works just fine.... but if users
print through the SAMBA connection, the jobs they print seem to let other
jobs "slip in" while they are printing. This is a massive problem, as
you
can imagine. We're getting users who print and only get the first page or
two of a three or four page document if one of these SAMBA-generated jobs
gets interrupted, and users who get gibberish for their first page of a
document when it breaks into the middle of a SAMBA-generated job.
Has anyone seen and/or solved this behavior, or does anyone have any
suggestions? The possibly relevant portions of my smb.conf file are
included for those who wish to see them. I've been through the SAMBA docs
and FAQ, and didn't see anything really relevant... maybe somethin gon the
SOlaris side would help this behavior?
Thanks in advance,
-mh.
--from smb.conf---
workgroup = FRANKLIN
[global]
syslog = 1
server string = Samba %v on %h (%L, %d)
printing = sysv
load printers = yes
browseable = yes
getwd cache = yes
hide dot files = no
read prediction = true
guest account = nobody
create mask = 0775
security = user
;hosts allow = localhost, 128.192.16., 168.15.176.
encrypt passwords = yes
password level = 4
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
wins support = yes
socket options = tcp_nodelay
os level = 32
log file = /opt/samba/var/log.%m
log level = 1
[printers]
comment = %S
path = /opt/samba/tmp
browseable = no
print command = /usr/bin/lp -d %p %s >> /opt/samba/var/lprlog/%u.lpdlog
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = yes
---
Mark Hazen ph:(706) 542-1546
207 New College Network Administrator, Dean's Office
The University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
