Hello,
I am currently seeing an issue with Samba ver 2.0.7 and Win2000 clients.
The clients
will connect to samba shares (folders and printers/queues), however, after
one print
job, the printers are no longer reachable. Windows 2000 printer properties
are no
longer accessible on these samba shared printers either. Windows thinks the
printers
are offline (which they are not). Looking at the log.smb file, several
messages appear:
connection closed by peer : close_<port> pdf_host (IP address) closed
connection
to server <print Q name>
In supporting samba in Unix/windows printing environments, I have never seen
this
message. I have also noticed that smbd has difficulty starting and running.
(even manually)
Originally, connections were fine until everyone upgraded from Win9x to 2K,
now they
have sporadic, at best, connections. Below is a copy of the smb.conf
file...
# Global parameters
workgroup = AHTEAST
netbios name = REGULUS
security = share
map to guest = Bad User
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 S_RCVBUF=8192
guest account = gateway
load printers = Yes
wins server = 192.167.118.2
[data]
comment = data directory
path = /export/home/gateway/windows
read only = no
writable = yes
public = yes
create mode = 0666
[Client]
comment = Squadron Client distribution
path = /opt/squadron/export
guest ok = Yes
read only = yes
writable = no
public = yes
[HotDrop]
comment = Squadron Hot Folders
path = /JM/local/hot
read only = No
writable = yes
public = yes
create mask = 0666
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
print command = /opt/gateway/bin/PrintWithName %p %s < %s
guest ok = Yes
print ok = Yes
read only = Yes
browseable = No
Any ideas about how to alleviate these problems???
Thanks,
John