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Hello to the list! I’m the sysadmin of a small non-profit with all of our
servers running some version of Fedora. I’m having recurring problems
with our print server, which is running CUPS (cups-1.1.19-13) and Samba (3.0.7-2.FC1)
on a 2.4.22-1.2194.nptl kernel. All of the office printers are set up with all
services disabled except for LPD, and CUPS is set to print through LPD (ex.
lpd://hp4050/raw) with all formatting done on user’s Windows machines
(all running XP). For the most part it works fine with our main HP Laserjet
4050, but I have recurring problems with another couple of printers, an HP
Laserjet 2300 and 4200. When I go to add a printer in XP for either of these
printers, right after I select the PCL driver to install locally, the Add
Printer dialog freezes. Then I see a bunch of hits on the firewall from the XP
machine to the server on port 135, which I’ve blocked (and I don’t
think is necessary for CUPS, or am I wrong? I’ve tried temporarily
opening the port but the problem persists). Then SpoolSV.exe on the XP machine
starts climbing to around 60/70% CPU use on the XP machine and subsequently one
of the smbd processes on the Print Server starts climbing to a similarly high
CPU usage. The only solution is to force quit the Add Printer dialog, and
remove the printer, at which point both SpoolSV and Samba go back to their
normal CPU usage. Has anyone seen this problem, and have any idea how to fix
it? Any help would be much appreciated! The relevant sections of smb.conf and printers.conf
are pasted below – cupsd.conf is unmodified thanks, Nick .: smb.conf: [global] netbios
name
= pcserver server
string
= JESNA File Server null
passwords
= yes workgroup
= jesna hosts
deny
= all hosts
allow
= 192.168.2. 127. hosts
deny
= 192.168.2.32 192.168.2.33 192.168.2.34 192.168.2.35 log
file
= /var/log/samba/%m.log max log
size
= 50
security
= share # log
level
= 2 encrypt
passwords = yes smb passwd
file =
/etc/samba/smbpasswd socket
options
= TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
interfaces
= 192.168.2.1 bind interfaces
only = yes local
master
= yes os
level
= 255 domain
master
= yes preferred
master = yes wins
support
= yes dns
proxy
= no guest
account
= jesna name resolve
order = wins lmhosts
bcast use client
driver = yes disable spoolss
= yes load
printers
= yes
printing
= cups printcap
name
= cups [printers]
path
= /tmp guest
ok
= yes
public
= yes
browsable
= yes
printable
= yes read
only
= yes force
user
= jesna force
group
= jesna printers.conf: <Printer hp2300> Info HP Laserjet 2300 Location JESNA office DeviceURI lpd://hp2300/raw State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> |
