[Samba] AD 2008 R2 vs. samba 3.4.5

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:53:00PM +0100, christoph.beyer at desy.de wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I almot exlusively use samba for printing in a semi large scale
> (>2.000 windows hosts & >500 printers). I have been running 3.0.20
> for a long time and was quite happy with it.
> 
> Unfortunately my windows fellows have now updated to AD 2008 R2 and
> I experienced some immediate problems with encryptions types so I
> updated to 3.4.5 which is not really working for me.
> 
> I see a lot of connection rests and also the load is significantly
> higher than before, looks a bit like a denial of service attack ;)
> Also the shares don't show up constantly in the domain but disappear
> from time to time.
> 
> My clients are 32bit windowsxp domain members and to make things a
> bit more complicated they received a MS security update at the same
> time which mainly concerns SMB (MS10-06 SMB Update).
> 
> Are there any advices or experiences, I'm really in need ? :(
> 
> 
> cheers
> 	~christoph
> 
> PS: Of couse I am also waiting for a samba based solution for
> windows 7 64 bit printing ;)

Please try 3.5.0rc3, which should have working Windows 7 64-bit
printing.

Jeremy.