[Samba] [samba 3.0.25c] disappearing printers problem

[Greene, Joe]

debug was not turned on, but no errors or access showed when it failed.
I can't try again until the Tuesday after Memorial Day as they are
production servers.. I'll try and get debugs then.



Joe Greene
UNIX Systems Administrator
Phone 317-707-2730
Fax 317-707-2397
Hours M-F 7am-4pm

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:58 PM
To: Greene, Joe
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] [samba 3.0.25c] disappearing printers problem


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.