I'm using VMS samba (2.2.8) to service about 10 print queues to about 100 PCs. Every now and then, something goes wrong with a print operation and the PC and the SMBD process end up in a loop chatting about their predicament. The SMBD process will show 2000-3000 I/O's per second. I haven't been able to track down the exact set of circumstances that causes this loop, has anyone else seen this in a way they could reproduce reliably?
If you kill the smbd process, the spooler process on the PC (under XP pro), immediately reconnects to the server and appears to want to retry sending the print job (I make the new smbd start with a higher debug level to see what is going on). The new smbd process doesn't recognize the printer handle and apparently sends a WERR_BADFID error response, to which the PC reacts by repeating the attempt a short time later. The net ammount of I/O from this loop is relatively low, but it never stops until you reboot the machine. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- David L. Jones | Phone: (614) 292-6929 Ohio State University | Internet: 140 W. 19th St. Rm. 231a | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbus, OH 43210 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: I'm looking for marbles all day long. PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
