[Samba] printing: lpd hangs

[Hans Wilmer]

Hi,

a number of Windoze clients is printing to networked printers over SAMBA 
(Debain package: 2.2.3a-12.3; lpd is 1:2000.05.07-4.3 --- these are 
standard Debian Woody packeges). Sometimes, an lpd process hangs, 
thereby blocking printing for all clients to all printers. The problem 
is especially likely to occur when a client tries to delete a print job; 
thus I´ve disabled deleting jobs by setting


    lprm command = /bin/false


in smb.conf. That helped a lot, but nevertheless lpd sometimes hangs.

Printing filters are not in use; the jobs coming from the clients are 
just passed through to the printers.

What could I do to avoid those hanging lpd´s? Is this a problem with 
SAMBA or with lpd? Any help would be appreciated ...


GH
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