samba - Mar 2007 - Samba, WinXP and slow printing

I had a serious problem with all my WinXP (some SP1, some SP2) comps 
printing over samba to a  printer (both, Samba and printer on Kubuntu 
(Dapper)).  It printed, but it took easily 20 minutes to get the 
printout.  The file sharing worked very fast and there were no error 
messages in Samba logs.

I have found the solution in message by *Walter Willmertinger* 
willmertinger at consys.de 
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from Tue Dec 7 16:24:02 GMT 2004 on this list.  Some more info added 
from other messages.

So, here you go:

*  Using regedit in winXP, find

	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\   and
	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\DevModePerUser

* Look for DevModes and DevModes2 and there delete all entries for Samba
printers.

That's it.  Sorry, don't know what it means but there are no problems 
and it started immediately printing fast.
//

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Best regards,
Stan Berka
Senior Programmer Analyst
Pope & Talbot, Inc.
Portland, OR
503 552-4315

> So, here you go:
>
> *  Using regedit in winXP, find
>
>         HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\   and
>         HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\DevModePerUser
>
> * Look for DevModes and DevModes2 and there delete all entries for Samba
printers.
>
> That's it.  Sorry, don't know what it means but there are no
problems
> and it started immediately printing fast.
> //
>
I consider that a bug with windows. The problem is that windows
remembers your old network printers, keeps them in a list and tries to
contact all of them on every print operation. This occurs even if the
printer has been deleted from windows.

John