[Samba] [samba 3.0.25c] disappearing printers problem

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:17:27PM -0400, Greene, Joe wrote:
> Scenario: 
> 
> Citrix, Win2k3.
> 
> Solaris 9 Server - latest Solaris patch Samba 3.0.25c
> 
>  
> 
> Every Monday morning, since applying the latest Solaris patches which
> upgraded samba from 3.0.21b -> 3.0.25c, the following occurs. The Citrix
> clients can no longer print. 
> 
> Active directory was also switched to 2003 native mode.
> 
>  
> 
> Sunday night, Citrix servers undergo a weekly reboot. 
> 
> Week 1 and 2:Monday morning start of business the Citrix clients cannot
> print to the Samba print shares. Restart Samba, service restored.
> 
> Week 3 and 4: Monday Morning before start of business, restart samba via
> cron  scheduler,  Start of business, Citrix clients cannot print..
> restart samba again.. service restored.
> 
> Week 5: Admin on site. Manually restart samba, test user tries to print
> and cannot, however smbstatus shows the citrix server connects and pulls
> the data file for formatting the raw print job, but the print share
> never registers an access. restart samba again, Citrix server pulls file
> and printer session registers in smbstatus.
> 
>  
> 
> Week 6: I'm dreading this. Rollback to 3.0.21b?

Need more info I'm afraid. What do the debug logs
for smbd say ?

Jeremy.