Help with spoolss printing

Mike Brodbelt m.brodbelt at acu.ac.uk
Tue Mar 4 13:18:12 GMT 2003


Hi,

I've got a network with an NT4 PDC and a Samba file/print server,
running Samba 2.2.3 as packaged with Debian Woody. The machine has been
working quite happily for ages (started life with Samba 1.9.18 a long
time ago), and the printer sharing has always been done as Lan Manager
printers.

Having finally found some spare time, I decided to switch to spoolss
printing. I created a print$ share as in the docs, and then installed
the appropriate drivers. All seemed OK, the drivers were successfully
copied to the server, and the printer shares worked as expected. I
restarted Samba a couple of times, and suddenly, for no obvious reason,
the "Printers" share on the server emptied itself entirely.

Running the rpcclient "enumdrivers" command returns no output.

Inspection of the logfiles shows:-

[2003/03/04 12:58:30, 0] rpc_server/srv_lsa_hnd.c:create_policy_hnd(98)
  create_policy_hnd: ERROR: too many handles (1025) on this pipe.
[2003/03/04 12:58:30, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(38)
  ===============================================================
[2003/03/04 12:58:30, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39)
  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 21915 (2.2.3a-12 for Debian)
  Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
[2003/03/04 12:58:30, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
  ===============================================================
[2003/03/04 12:58:30, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1064)
  PANIC: internal error
[2003/03/04 12:59:12, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(359)
  cli_pipe: return critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED


The last message is repeated many times.

Is this a known bug? Is there anything I can do about it?

Any help gratufully received....

Mike.



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