[Samba] Printing problems

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Feb 1 23:26:22 GMT 2005


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Josh Kelley wrote:

| Second, we're seeing lots of the following messages in
| our log files:
|
| [2005/01/27 13:31:34, 0] rpc_server/srv_lsa_hnd.c:create_policy_hnd(111)
|  create_policy_hnd: ERROR: too many handles (1025) on this pipe.
|
| I'm getting reports from users that they're intermittently
| unable to  print.  Windows reports, "Unable to create a print
| job"; this seems to  correspond with the "too many handles"
| errors, but I haven't gotten  details consistently enough
| to know for sure.  Any suggestions?

Are you using an XP client?  There's a limit on the
number of open printer handles that smbd will allow
to prevent a client from eating up too much memory.
it's set to 256 currently.

I would look at a network sniff to see what the client
is doing opening all those printer handles.




cheers, jerry
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