[Samba] print spooling message never goes away

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Martin Zielinski wrote:

> I think, it's a serious problem, which needs to get fixed. Removing tdb
> files is no option.
> 
> When this happened on our server, I saw zero-byte spoolfiles in the
> samba spooldirectory. But after deletion the jobs still appeared in the
> windows box.
> 
> I'll try to reproduce it to get more info about that.

I'm been working on this actually.  Could you test 3.0.6rc2 ?
I'm never been able to reproduce this locally.

> I'd like to ask, if there is some "tdb self-cleaning" functionality in
> Samba. And if so - can it be tweaked?

Nope.  it's not a tdb corruption or ghosted entries as far as I can tell.
If you remove the tdb then all the SMB job information is gone as well.
It needs to be persistent.

> If I delete the printer on my server, the entries in the ntprinters.tdb
> seem to stay there forever.  Also the printing/*.tdb files stay there.
> I'd really love a "revisit your tdb files and clean them up" - function.

See the 'deleteprinter command' rather than just removing them from 
smb.conf.



cheers, jerry
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