Printing Problems

[John Welch]

Hi all,
   I am having problems printing from Win95 clients to an RS/6000 box
running AIX 4.3.3 using Samba 2.0.5a.
    I have been using Samba for quite some time now on various *NIX
platforms without ever encountering any major problems.  On the machine
in question, I recently upgraded AIX form 4.2.1 to 4.3.2.  After this
upgrade Samba continued to function properly.  However, this past
Saturday (11/6/99) I applied some patches to AIX to bring the os level
up to 4.3.3.  After rebooting the system I did attempt a print job from
a Win95 client which worked successfully.  I also see in the Samba logs
one other successful print job.  Since that job, however no other print
jobs have completed.  My Samba print directory is /tmp and I do see
files being created in this directory in the usual manner however
nothing ever gets passed to the spooler.  I have verified that AIX
printing is working properly.
    When I send a print job I get the following in the log.smb:
  jrw106 (129.100.201.10) connect to service lp_mis as user jrw (uid=12,
gid=11)
 (pid 58722)
[1999/11/08 13:31:22, 0] lib/smbrun.c:smbrun(128)
  smbrun: fork failed with error Resource temporarily unavailable
[1999/11/08 13:31:22, 0] lib/smbrun.c:smbrun(128)
  smbrun: fork failed with error Resource temporarily unavailable
[1999/11/08 13:31:22, 0] lib/smbrun.c:smbrun(128)
  smbrun: fork failed with error Resource temporarily unavailable
[1999/11/08 13:31:25, 0] lib/smbrun.c:smbrun(128)
  smbrun: fork failed with error Resource temporarily unavailable

    Other Samba functions such as copying files seem to work correctly.
Besides this printing problem all other processes seem OK on the
RS/6000.
    I am not sure where to go from here.  Any thoughts or suggestions
would be appreciated.

Thank You in Advance,
John Welch
Systems Analyst
Brockway-Smith Co.