Help with spoolss printing

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Mar 4 14:24:10 GMT 2003


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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> 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.

Please retest against 2.2.8pre2.  

> 
> 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.

Can you describe your configuration a little more?  Are you using 
a WIN2k TSE box by chance?






cheers, jerry
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