[Samba] excessive lpstat calls

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Andrew Morgan wrote:
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| On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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|> Andrew Morgan wrote:
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|> | I run a fairly busy samba server that only serves up users' home
|> | directory.  I am running Samba v3.0.20 under Solaris 10 on a Sun v440.
|> | I'm seeing a large number of calls to '/usr/bin/lpstat -v'.  These are
|> | probably occuring everytime a new client connects, but I'm not
|> positive.
|> |
|> | The server does not have any printers attached to it, has no entries in
|> | /etc/printers.conf, and is not running lp services at all.  I am unable
|> | to remove the lp packages from the system due to dependencies.  I have
|> | no intention of using Samba as a print server on this machine, so I'd
|> | like to disable printing entirely and prevent Samba from calling lpstat
|> | continuously.
|> |
|> | I've attached my smb.conf file.  Any suggestions?
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|> Try setting "printing = bsd" and "printcap name = /dev/null".
|> Although we really shouldn't be looking for printers at all
|> when there ie no [printers] section in smb.conf.
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| Thanks Jerry, this worked.  Should I file a bug on
| this so it doesn't get lost?

You just just send me a level 10 smbd debug log of the lpstat
issue?  I think I can figure it out pretty quickly.....





jerry
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