I am not using Samba's print service. All of the individual workstations have shared printers. We simply use those.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gienger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Merrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad? > Do you have any dns service running? Even if you're running some files > based stuff (/etc/hosts) make sure that your address match names. I've > had issues where they didn't match up before. > > Follow me here... a machine running dhcp registered itself in dns with > a particular address. That user then was given a static address with a > different name. The user didn't change his computer name to match dns > when he went to static, and his machine didn't change its dns > registration, so it was reporting itself as a name which matched a black > hole IP address (because it wasn't sitting there any more). You could > see in the logs where the samba spooler service would time out trying to > access the dead address/name combo, and eventually windows would just > time out and give you the printer box. > > Brian Merrell wrote: > > >Thanks for your response Jerry. > > > >Yes. These are all windows XP machines. We have about four printers here > >in the office (all HP hehe). Only two computers have McAfee Firewalls > >installed, the rest do not have firewalls. We are on a 100 mbps ethernet > >with a 16 port hub. Nothing too fancy. > > > >AutoCad is a strange beast. No matter what printer you have set up as your > >default printer, when you click the print icon or give the print command, > >AutoCad comes up with no printer selected in the print dialog, and the user > >selects the plotter each time (although you can save your print selections > >for each drawing). I have even tried setting the default printer to the > >"PDF distiller" and it still takes the same ammount of time for the print > >dialog to come up. > > > >However, I was just tinkering with the print settings and noticed that the > >print dialog comes up normally some times. i.e. If you click cancel on the > >print dialog and then hit the print icon again quickly, it seems to come up > >normally. > > > >The other mysterious problem is the time it takes to save. I just saw a guy > >behind me try to save a drawing and it took about 20 seconds. Something > >that never happened before when the files were hosted on an older windows XP > >machine with a heavier load. > > > >I'm all out of ideas and really don't want to go back to windows. > > > >brian. > > > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Brian Merrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:27 AM > >Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba just Slow with AutoCad? > > > > > > > > > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>Brian Merrell wrote: > >>| No good. It's still amazingly slow. It seems to perform > >>| just fine until the user tries to print. There is a huge > >>| delay before the print dialog comes up, and when the user > >>| tries to save there is another huge delay. The > >>| problem seems to be only with AutoCad. > >> > >>Sorry I'm late on this thread. > >> > >>Are these XP clients? Do the clients have a > >>active firewall installed. If the delay is only > >>when printing, it is probabl either > >> > >>(a) a very chatty printer driver, or > >>(b) timeouts when the client tries to > >>~ open a print change notify handle. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>cheers, jerry > >>- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com > >>SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org > >>GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc > >>"...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." ----------- Sting > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >>Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > >>Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >> > >>iD8DBQFAxcznIR7qMdg1EfYRAicSAKDPzwf0vrIpsTgrln1hFnUlZ/VVOgCfXjs8 > >>XYq6cwr7pC7oqkM0DHab0eU= > >>=I89Z > >>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 > Applied Engineering Inc. Cell: 701-306-6254 > Information Systems Consultant Fax: 701-281-1322 > URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba