samba - Jul 2004 - 6 second delay for File / Print dialog to come up

Single 100MB switched subnet. 500MHz Samba 3.0.4 PDC (test server) and 3Ghz
Win2K clients. I have three Spoolless printers defined on the client via the APW
and downloading the driver.

Open notepad, type some trash, file, print, and there is a 6 second delay until
the print dialog comes up. Canceling out and doing so again from the same
instance of notepad is just as slow, so not
even notepad itself is caching what ever it is doing.

Is this the speed to be expected for this operation?

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

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I've been digging further on this...

Turned logging back up to 10. Reboot Win2K client, open notepad, etc... delete
all logs, File/Print, and when the dialog finally comes up quick open the log to
see what happened. 6128 lines of log
just for three network printers!

I have time stamping turned on in the logging, and I only catch about 3 seconds
worth of traffic, that does not account for ALL of the 6 to 7 second delay.

I saw some entries that it could not get the workstation to answer up as a
server, ja, we turn off the server service on non-servers. Turned it back on,
log entries went away, not the delays.

Are these Win2K/XP style (spoolless) printers just that slow in general?

WordPerfect is major painful as it reformats each file you open for the selected
printer, and how does it know the printer... it enum's the printers... six
seconds here, six seconds there... so much
for 3GHz client PC's! ;-)

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

Remove the upper case letters NOSPAM to contact me directly.