[Samba] Samba 2.2.3a, print queue status "opening," highserver load

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Jay D. Anderson wrote:

> About five minutes after I sent my message, I found that the "veto
> files" entry in my smb.conf was the main culprit for my problem.  For
> problems experienced by NT4.0 Windows Terminal Server Edition, I had to
> prevent Ne01: type files from being written to file shares, or printing
> would stop for some users unlucky enough to have printing malfunction
> and start writing these sort of files instead of printing.  I have taken
> out that global and instead put it in as a per-share parameter, and now
> printing works properly.... as long as "File and Printer Sharing" is
> enabled in the network properties on the client.  If this parameter
> isn't enabled, printing works, but the queue is shown as Opening, or
> "failed connection."

Interesting....That's make some sense I guess.  Good catch :-)





cheers, jerry
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