[Samba] server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds

[Heath Mason]

> We are using samba 2.2.8a on AIX 5.1.  We use smbclient to print files to
> a Windows 2000 server.  I have been getting complaints from users that
> they are losing print jobs.  I setup a script to send 500 jobs to a paused
> print queue and found that I usually lose a job and / or find a job that
> is a few bytes short.
> 
> The error that I get is:  Error writing file: Call timed out: server did
> not respond after 20000 milliseconds
> Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds closing
> remote file .09:53:1153996-52306
> 
> I recently upgraded a test box to samba 3.0.3, but we are still getting
> the same error.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can prevent smbclient from timing out (increase the
> timeout value, make it retry when it gets this error, etc)?  
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank You


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