samba - Mar 2004 - Print Queues Dying!!

It started with one networked printer but it appears to have spread to
another and now all networked printers occasionally go down.  We have
several JetDirect boxes and one NetGear PS101 printer server served by CUPS,
the Windows computers access the print queues via Samba 3.0.2 on RedHat
Enterprise Server 3.

This is a very problematic issue and it is getting worse.  We used this same
type of set up with LPD at other installations without issue.  Is this a
known issue with Samba and CUPS or just a CUPS issue?  I'm trying to get LPD
installed to see if it works better.

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Jeff Umbach wrote:

| It started with one networked printer but it appears to have
| spread to another and now all networked printers occasionally
| go down.  We have several JetDirect boxes and one
| NetGear PS101 printer server served by CUPS,
| the Windows computers access the print queues via Samba
| 3.0.2 on RedHat Enterprise Server 3.
|
| This is a very problematic issue and it is getting worse.
| We used this same> type of set up with LPD at other
| installations without issue.  Is this a known issue with
| Samba and CUPS or just a CUPS issue?  I'm trying to get LPD
| installed to see if it works better.
|

please try the patches in

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1147
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007




cheers, jerry
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I don't know if this has fixed it permanently but at another's
suggestion I
have disabled the general printers share and defined a separate share for
each print queue.  The problematic print queues are functioning fine now and
not timing out at all.  Perhaps there is a problem with using more than a
certain number of print queues in the general printer share?