[Samba] printing totally broken

[Chuck Theobald]

Hi Jerry,

Looks like it is happening on all clients, though some behave at first.  No 
smbd process appears to be gathering time too quickly, though one has a bit 
of time for a user who is quite busy at the moment.  I am using point and 
print with a new client, and some smbd's are collecting about a second 
every few seconds or so.

Now, I got a dialog saying that two of my printers did not have the correct 
drivers installed.  I am going through the Printers and Faxes share to try 
to upload the drivers, but I get stony silence from my server.

I'd like to eliminate the simple stuff first:  What should the permissions 
on the [print$] section path be?


Also, annoying side-effect of using printing = sysv
lauterbur{54}# tail smblog.smbd
                   request, since no record of it remains.
UX:lpstat: ERROR: "cni-hp-8150" already printed.
           TO FIX: You can't get any information about this
                   request, since no record of it remains.
UX:lpstat: ERROR: "cni-hp-2200" already printed.
           TO FIX: You can't get any information about this
                   request, since no record of it remains.
UX:lpstat: ERROR: "cni-hp-4500" already printed.
           TO FIX: You can't get any information about this
                   request, since no record of it remains.
lauterbur{55}#


Thanks,
Chuck


At 02:15 PM 6/1/2005, you wrote:
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>Chuck Theobald wrote:
>| Hi All,
>|
>| I have a serious problem with my Samba printing.
>| Basically, it is  totally broken.  The symptoms
>| include client machines waiting forever
>| for a print dialog to appear, especially
>| Win2k machines, and a complete inability to
>| get a properties dialog reliably.  I run Samba
>| 3.0.14a +  OpenLDAP 2.2.24 on Solaris 8 on a V880.
>| My smb.conf is as below.  Any advice would
>| be appreciated.
>
>Check the network traffic for an XP client send
>GetPrinterData() requests over and over.  Is there
>an smbd process that is taking up a lot of CPU?
>Does the problem only occur for a specific printer
>driver?  Or all drivers?  All clients?  or a
>specific client?
>
>
>
>cheers, jerry
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Chuck Theobald
System Administrator
The Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging
University of Oregon
P: 541-346-0343
F: 541-346-0345