[Samba] Printer settings disappearing on win98 clients Samba v 2.0.7 , solaris 7

[Rashkae]

This is caused by the Windows Printer Spool program crashing. In Windows
NT, you can stop and start the spools service to get working again. I have
yet no soluting for Win95, 98, ME besides rebooting the PC. In my office,
the current biggest culprit for this is Norton Anti-Virus. I have to instruct
roughtly 30% of users to disable Auto-Protect when they are about to print,
else there is a roughtly 25% chance the print job will fail and crash the
spool service. (Note: 90% of statistics are made up, including all the ones in
this message.)


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Andy Crichton wrote:

Not certain that this is related directly to samba however any pointers
appreciated.

I have noticed an effect whereby all of the printers configured for a
win98/95 client simply disappear. We have a solaris 7 box running samba
2.0.7 and this hosts several printers. Upon rebooting the client the
printers are listed again. Is there some interaction in smb which causes
printers to no longer be listed by the clients (as opposed to listing them
as offline)?

Cheers

Andy Crichton


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