HP8500 bug workaround causes other problems...

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Kevin Stefanik wrote:

> 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.

Yeah.  That would help.  We chose 20 because we had never seen more than 
that in the wild.  








cheers, jerry
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