I've upgraded my print server to CentOS5 w/Samba 3.2.0. While it "works" we are experiencing numerous irritating issues. I'm curious if anyone else is experencing these issues. 1.) Print jobs do not clear out of the CIFS queue. So we now have printers that show they have over 1,000 jobs in the queue although the queue is empty. This is a bug scheduled to be fixed in 3.2.1 (I believe) so at least I'm not crazy on this one. 2.) When attempting to upload some drivers the process fails with "This driver is not compatible with Windows XP". Although it is the latest driver for HP's Laserjet 4200 series. This occurs with both PCL and Postscript drivers. 3.) After working perfectly for awhile a specific queue will stop working and users will get an "Access Denied" messgaes while other queues using the same driver will work perfectly. Then switching the driver on the server around will sometimes make it work. Othertimes the driver needs to be deleted, re-added, and reassigned to the printer to make the "Access Denied" message disappear. Does 3.2.0 make any changes to the TDB format? If not, is it possible to drop backwards to a stable version? Printing via LPD or IPP directly to CUPS works flawlessly every time. [root@crew ~]# rpm -q samba3 samba3-3.2.0-36 [root@crew ~]# uname -a Linux crew.morrison.iserv.net 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 25 13:49:24 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@crew ~]# rpm -q cups cups-1.3.8-1
> 3.) After working perfectly for awhile a specific queue will stop > working and users will get an "Access Denied" messgaes while other > queues using the same driver will work perfectly. Then switching the > driver on the server around will sometimes make it work. Othertimes the > driver needs to be deleted, re-added, and reassigned to the printer to > make the "Access Denied" message disappear.Found a seemingly reliable work around for #3. # Stop SMB services [root@crew var]# rcsmb stop Shutting down SMB services: [ OK ] Shutting down NMB services: [ OK ] # make sure all the SMB processes have stopped, this may take a minute [root@crew var]# ps ax | grep smb 6956 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep smb # Remove the related tdb file [root@crew var]# rm ./lib/samba/printing/cenps.tdb rm: remove regular file `./lib/samba/printing/cenps.tdb'? y # Restart SMB services [root@crew var]# rcsmb start Starting SMB services: [ OK ] Starting NMB services: [ OK ] Users can now print to the queue again, no "Access Denied" message.
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:> I've upgraded my print server to CentOS5 w/Samba 3.2.0. While it > "works" we are experiencing numerous irritating issues. I'm curious if > anyone else is experencing these issues. > > 1.) Print jobs do not clear out of the CIFS queue. So we now have > printers that show they have over 1,000 jobs in the queue although the > queue is empty. This is a bug scheduled to be fixed in 3.2.1 (I > believe) so at least I'm not crazy on this one.This is a bug, and it is already fixed (for 3.2.1). You are not crazy! :-) Cheers - Michael -- Michael Adam <ma@sernet.de> <obnox@samba.org> SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 G?ttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG G?ttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.SerNet.DE, mailto: Info @ SerNet.DE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 206 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20080804/b419c945/attachment.bin