[Samba] printing totally broken

Gerald (Jerry) Carter
Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:16:14 -0000

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Chuck Theobald wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| I have a serious problem with my Samba printing.
| Basically, it is  totally broken.  The symptoms
| include client machines waiting forever
| for a print dialog to appear, especially
| Win2k machines, and a complete inability to
| get a properties dialog reliably.  I run Samba
| 3.0.14a +  OpenLDAP 2.2.24 on Solaris 8 on a V880.
| My smb.conf is as below.  Any advice would
| be appreciated.

Check the network traffic for an XP client send
GetPrinterData() requests over and over.  Is there
an smbd process that is taking up a lot of CPU?
Does the problem only occur for a specific printer
driver?  Or all drivers?  All clients?  or a
specific client?



cheers, jerry
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