LPRng, Solaris, & Samba

[Steen Jensen]

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Craig Huckabee wrote:

huck> 
huck> 
huck> 
huck>   I'm curious if anyone else using LPRng, Solaris 2.5.1, and Samba 1.9.18p4 
huck>   has run into this problem :
huck> 
huck>   Certain print queues cannot be viewed, no matter what.  You can double
huck>   click the printer from an NT 4.0 client to display the queue, and it will
huck>   either open and close instantly after that, or it will grind for a few
huck>   moments with "<Refreshing>" in the queue title bar then close.
huck>   This happens with no documents in the queue as well as with a full queue.
huck> 
huck>   Other queues display fine for a while, then close suddenly for no reason.
huck> 
huck>   I've made a few runs with a debug level of 10 but nothing gets put in the
huck>   logs.

We had the same problem, with printerqueues longer then 12 jobs, and only
on Win95 clients. Jeremy fixed it with this patch (for samba-1.9.18p4):

----------------------cut here------------------------
Index: ipc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /data/cvs/samba/source/ipc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.73.2.10
diff -w -b -u -r1.73.2.10 ipc.c
--- ipc.c       1998/04/11 00:42:33     1.73.2.10
+++ ipc.c       1998/04/14 17:14:33
@@ -280,8 +280,9 @@
   p->subcount = 0;
   p->curpos = p->format;
   if (i > n) {
+    p->neededlen = i;
     i = n = 0;
-    p->errcode = NERR_BufTooSmall;
+    p->errcode = ERROR_MORE_DATA;
   }
   else
     p->errcode = NERR_Success;
----------------------end patch-----------------------


Best,

Steen.


huck> 
huck>   Anybody got a similar setup with NT 4.0 clients ?
huck> 
huck>   Thanks,
huck>   Craig
huck> 
huck> 
huck> Craig Huckabee 				E-Mail : huck at cs.wisc.edu
huck> Computer Systems Lab, Computer Sciences Department			
huck> University of Wisconsin-Madison
huck> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~huck/
huck> 
huck> 
huck> ------------------------------
huck>