[Samba] bsd printing and samba 4.17

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 09:09:35 +0100
Piviul via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 2/6/24 14:25, Piviul via samba wrote:
> > [...]
> > but even if the %s file is successfully removed the spool remain in 
> > queue and lock further documents printing.
> >
> > I found this problem in samba 4.17.12-Debian on a debian bullseye
> > but in samba 4.14.10-Debian on a debian buster I don't have this
> > problem.
> 
> I remember that in samba 4.14 enabling spoolssd was causing a similar 
> problem. Now in samba documentation[¹] I read that manually enabling 
> spoolssd only applies to Samba version 4.15 and older versions. So
> means that samba greater than 4.15 doesn't have spoolssd or means
> that is enabled by default? If it, as I fear, is enabled, there is a
> way to disable it?
> 
> Piviul
> 
> [¹]
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Print_Server
> 
> 

To be honest, I am unsure if spoolss is running permanently now, but
it sounds like it is and if it is, I do not know if you can turn it
off. Perhaps setting 'rpcd_spoolss:num_workers = 0' in global ?

Rowland