Hu John,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:27:54PM -0400, John Welch wrote:
> We have a Windows 2003 Active Directory environment with a mixture of Windows 
> 2000/2003 and Linux (CentOS 4/5) / Samba servers.  The Samba versions on some 
> of the Linux machines are getting a little old (3.0 and 3.2) and we are 
> starting to introduce Windows 7 in our environment, so I thought now might be 
> a good time to upgrade.  On a fully patched CentOS 5 test machine I upgraded 
> to Samba 3.5.1 using the packages from the sernet repos.  For the most part 
> things seem OK, except that I've noticed a great deal of latency when trying 
> to print (CUPS) to a printer shared on the test Samba 3.5.1 machine.  Any 
> type of task involving this printer (viewing properties, selecting the 
> printer, actually printing a document) takes at least a few seconds longer 
> than it used to.  
> 
> In investigating this problem I didn't really see anything relevant in the 
> Samba logs, but for each printing task I do I see messages like the following 
> repeated several times in the CUPS logs:
> 
> I [31/Mar/2010:12:38:12 -0400] cupsdCloseClient: SSL shutdown successful!
> 
> I'm guessing this might have something to do with the new Samba "cups 
> encrypt" parameter.  However, the default is supposed to be "no", so I'm not 
> sure why I'm seeing these "SSL" messages.  I even tried explicitly setting 
> the parameter to "no" in my smb.conf file, but this had no effect.  All the 
> printing tasks do eventually work (or at least from what I've found so far), 
> but the extra time involved to complete the tasks is an annoyance.
> 
> Backing off to 3.4 series (3.4.7) fixes the problem, so it definitely seems 
> to be a 3.5 thing.  I have no problem upgrading to 3.4.x instead of the 3.5 
> series, at least for now.  But just wondering if I've maybe missed a 
> configuration change that needs to be made either to Samba or CUPS to fix 
> this issue.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

this might be related to bug https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6727
(will be fixed in Samba 3.5.2.).

Cheers,
Karolin

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