[Samba] Pause in file transfers while printing,

[Zieba Pete]

I'm sending this out again because although I know what causes the problem
now, I'm still not sure what to do about it . . . 

Zieba Pete wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm running Slack 8.1 and Samba 2.2.4. The mp3 I'm playing off of the
> server, or anything else realtime for that matter, pauses when a print job
> is sent to the box. I'm printing to a small cheap print server that takes
> lpr.

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Samba operates on a single thread model, per client.  The client decides
how many connectons to make, and windows always uses just one.

As such, all other operations on that connection *will* block while we
print - particulary if the remote print server blocks.

It may be possible to 'background' the print process (by twiddleing the
print command) but I don't know what implications that might have.

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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How exactly would I go about backgrounding the print process?

Specs:
PII 450MHz
160 MB RAM
Slackware 8.1 - samba-2.24-i386-3, using lprng that comes with Slack 8.1

smb.conf:
[colorgecko]
    create mode=1777
    printable=yes
    path=/vol3/spool/hp2000
    writable=yes
    public=yes
    print command=/usr/bin/lpr -P%p %s
;****END OF SMB.CONF****

printcap:
colorgecko:lp=/dev/null:rm=10.0.0.12:rp=PORT1:sd=/vol3/spool/hp2000:sh
;****END OF PRINTCAP****

lpd.conf:
force_localhost@
;****END OF LPD.CONF****

Thanks for your time and help !
 - Pete