[Samba] printing in dos slows

Herb Lewis herb at sgi.com
Mon Sep 16 15:47:01 GMT 2002


 If a DOS application does not close the printer port Windows waits 45
seconds 
after receiving data before printing. The delay can be shortened to 10
seconds 
by adding the following lines after the [386enh] section in the
system.ini file 
on the client workstations: 


[Network]
PrintBufTime=10
[IFSMGR]
PrintBufTime=10



Dominic Deferia wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an issue in dos printing. My okidata dot matrix printer is directly
> connected to linux box and is a shared printer in  samba . I am using lprng.
> My problem is with dos printing. When i print, it spools first indicated in
> the windows printer window. It takes a minute before it actually sends to
> the linux box, you will see an indicator of spooled bytes. Once it is
> submitted it prints right away. Is there a way I can speed this up a little
> bit. My clients are complaining about this. I tried options of print
> directly to printer, but it is the same result. I use the net use lpt1
> \\server\printshare option to make dos apps print work. Any help or link is
> highly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Dominic Y. Deferia
> 
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