[Samba] upgrade from 3.0.14a to 3.0.27a; CUPS log files flooding!

Alex de Vaal samba.alex at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 11:50:51 GMT 2008


On Mon Mar 24 at 12:39:30, Adrian Sender wrote:

> I have observed a similar problem; my main concern was cpu load caused by
samba querying cups
> for printer "comment" and "description" fields instead of its local
database.
> Set this through windows by mapping the printers as a print admin user.

> Once fields were set on all printers and samba restarted cpu load dropped
from 50+% to almost 0.
> This should also resolve logging problems.

My users get the Windows (Samba/CUPS) printers installed via the logon
script of the W2k3 AD domain.
The windows users have user level on the XP client.

If I add those users (as member of a AD group) to the "printer admin =" in
smb.conf, then the problem should vanish?

Thnx for your reply,
Alex.


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