[Samba] Win7 SLOW printing

Christoph Beyer chbeyer at mail.desy.de
Tue Nov 16 12:09:23 MST 2010


Hi,

just a short question, which version of samba are you using ? I try to get 
3.5.6 to run with windows 7 64 bit and this is a tidious task for me :(

cheers
  christoph


On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:27:43PM -0500, Ryan Suarez wrote:
>> Ok, it looks like this was the cause of the delay.  As soon as I
>> disable windows firewall on this client, the errors disappear and
>> jobs start printing immediately.  We have bring your own laptops
>> (with their own image) here at the college.  I suspect this is the
>> same cause of their delays.
>>
>> Could someone please shed some light what samba uses this connection for?
>
> This is the insane Windows print spooler design, where the server
> connects back to the client to do change notify.
>
> Samba tries to do the same - look at spoolss_connect_to_client()
> in rpc_server/srv_spoolss_nt.c - maybe we should have an option
> to disable this.
>
> Jeremy.
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best regards
 	~christoph


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