[Samba]Re: SAMBA 2.2.2 - slow print queue update

[Joel Hammer]

Is is possible to run several different smbd's at once?
I haven't tried this, but, you might be able to run multiple smbd's,
each listening to a different port. I don't know much about your system,
but there must be artful ways to redirect traffic to different ports,
depending upon client source or other input.  Ipchains could do this,
I belive. smbd can listen to high ports, so you could have as many smbd's
running as you like.

man smbd talks about changing port numbers.

Another possibility is to give your server network interface several
aliases, and have diverse smbd's running which only listen to one of
several aliases. I have no idea if this would work.

You may have to recompile samba to get several different versions, with
different locations for lock files and the like. Sounds like a fun project.

I'll post this question under the subject Mulitple smbd's ? and see if
anyone who knows about this responds.

Joel

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:38:06AM +0100, Klaus Jungbauer wrote:
> Hello Joel,
> 
> thanks for help.
> 
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> > 
> > I am just an amateur, but:
> > Would it help to partition the work? Do all clients need to access all the
> > printers?
> 
> It would be a solution, but my customer wants to use only one print
> server for administrative reasons and to build up a high availability
> cluster (and spent no more than two systems).
>  
> > What if you used macros, and depending on the client, only make certain
> > printers available?
> 
> That won't help. The smbd spent the most time to update the printer
> queue status and that coresponds to the number of server side configured
> printer queues.
> 
> 
> > Joel