[Samba] Windows XP SP2 slow printing solution

[Walter Willmertinger]

Thank you very much, I  tried your solution 3 (the http- or URL 
-printing method). Speed is now very good.
As I run CUPS and always have my local drivers, I have no problem with 
the non automatic load of printer drivers.

But I hope for people which do not meet these conditions, that someone 
finds a solution to this problem. I still will support with debug logs 
etc, but as you write "I've been met with silence as well"

Best regards from Germany,

Walter

Jason Balicki schrieb:

>Walter Willmertinger <> wrote:
>  
>
>>I upgraded to 3.0.8 with no difference in the speed of the printer
>>dialogue and other printer related topics.
>>It is still very, very slow. For example, Adobe 6.0 takes about 10
>>seconds to show the printer dialogue.
>>
>>So it seems, that the problem is not fixed.
>>I sure think it is a problem in SP2, because I removed already SP2 and
>>all works in normal speed.
>>The problem is that you cannot go around SP2 only if you ignore any MS
>>XP updates.
>>    
>>
>
>For what it's worth, I've had this same issue and I've been
>met with silence as well.  Also, 10 seconds is child's play,
>I'd have considered that GOOD.  :)  I was waiting for 30 seconds
>or more for print related dialogs to pop up.
>
>Here's what I've learned:
>
>1) It's NOT universal, and only appears to affect certain printers/
>print drivers.  I have Canon ImageRunners that have this problem,
>but I have several HP printers and a Ricoh color laser that doesn't.
>The Canon printers have the problem no matter what driver I attempt
>to print with (they support PCL and PostScript.)  I've tried every
>version of both languages that I could get my hands on.
>
>2) It IS an issue with Windows XP SP 2 and Samba.  If I change
>either of those, i.e., uninstall SP2 or share the printer on another
>Windows machine (or use a print method other than smb) the problem 
>goes away.
>
>3) You can work around the problem by printing to CUPS/IPP directly.
>When setting up the printer select "network" printer and then select
>the "connect to a printer on the Internet..." radio button.  Then
>you can use the url "http://<servername>:631/printers/printername"
>to connect to your printer.  This has the distinct drawback of
>not being able to automatically load printer drivers.  Of course,
>you also must be running CUPS as your print backend.  Also, I
>don't know if you can do this with Windows 9x clients, but you
>shouldn't be running those any more, and you don't have the
>slow print problem with 9x anyway. :)  By using IPP, I've decreased
>the amount of wait time to near zero.  Print related dialogs
>are near instant at this point.
>
>Disclaimer:  I have yet to upgrade to 3.0.8 on my production server,
>I am still at 3.0.7.  However, I've set up a test box with
>3.0.8 and I have the same issues.
>
>HTH,
>
>--J(K)
>
>  
>
>>Bret Jordan schrieb:
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>>>Also if your printers are in a different VLAN check your firewall
>>>rules and or router ACLs to make sure the CUPs/Samba server can talk
>>>about to the clients correctly.  When you do a packet capture you
>>>will see what I am talking about. 
>>>
>>>Bret
>>>
>>>Darrin Yeager wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>>On the printer server, we are running samba 3.0.1, and on the WINS
>>>>>server we are running an older version, 2.2.5.
>>>>>Recently, some of our computers were upgraded to XP SP2. After the
>>>>>upgrade, accessing the samba shared printers from the XP machines
>>>>>was incredibly slow. It would take tens of seconds to even bring
>>>>>up the printer status window, and printing from acrobat could take
>>>>>several minutes.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You'll have to upgrade the 3.0.1 box -  MS introduced a bug in XP
>>>>SP2 for printing which samba fixed in the later versions (> 3.0.5 I
>>>>believe). 
>>>>
>>>>Look at the release notes for the latest samba version and search
>>>>for "SP2" and you'll see the problem.
>>>>
>>>>http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.8.html
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>>>>
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