HP8500 bug workaround causes other problems...
Kevin Stefanik
kstef at mtppi.org
Wed Apr 10 06:01:01 GMT 2002
In January, Jeremy Allison patched the rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c as shown
below. This causes us problems, because WordPerfect (WPO2002, SP1 on NT4,
SP6, cvs SAMBA_2_2 as of 4/8/2002) bombards printers with a series of
open/close requests when it first opens up. The limit of 20 spoolss pipes
means it gets NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED messages before it gets done probing
(?) the second printer...
Moving this limit up to 1024 fixed that problem for us. I don't know what
the HP8500 problem is, so I can't recommend any real solution, just thought
you'd like to know.
I have packet dumps if they'd help.
Thanks,
Kevin Stefanik
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/*
* Sometimes I can't decide if I hate Windows printer driver
* writers more than I hate the Windows spooler service driver
* writers. This gets around a combination of bugs in the spooler
* and the HP 8500 PCL driver that causes a spooler spin. JRA.
*/
#ifndef MAX_OPEN_SPOOLSS_PIPES
#define MAX_OPEN_SPOOLSS_PIPES 20
#endif
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