I'm sending this out again because although I know what causes the problem
now, I'm still not sure what to do about it . . .
Zieba Pete wrote:>
> Hello,
> I'm running Slack 8.1 and Samba 2.2.4. The mp3 I'm playing off of
the
> server, or anything else realtime for that matter, pauses when a print job
> is sent to the box. I'm printing to a small cheap print server that
takes
> lpr.
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Samba operates on a single thread model, per client. The client decides
how many connectons to make, and windows always uses just one.
As such, all other operations on that connection *will* block while we
print - particulary if the remote print server blocks.
It may be possible to 'background' the print process (by twiddleing the
print command) but I don't know what implications that might have.
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net
http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
How exactly would I go about backgrounding the print process?
Specs:
PII 450MHz
160 MB RAM
Slackware 8.1 - samba-2.24-i386-3, using lprng that comes with Slack 8.1
smb.conf:
[colorgecko]
create mode=1777
printable=yes
path=/vol3/spool/hp2000
writable=yes
public=yes
print command=/usr/bin/lpr -P%p %s
;****END OF SMB.CONF****
printcap:
colorgecko:lp=/dev/null:rm=10.0.0.12:rp=PORT1:sd=/vol3/spool/hp2000:sh
;****END OF PRINTCAP****
lpd.conf:
force_localhost@
;****END OF LPD.CONF****
Thanks for your time and help !
- Pete
