Hello! Problem still exists. I failed to find the reason, so here are my observations regarding the problem.
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 10:16, Walter Willmertinger wrote: > Thank you very much, I tried your solution 3 (the http- or URL > -printing method). Speed is now very good. [...] > > Jason Balicki schrieb: > >Walter Willmertinger <> wrote: > >>I upgraded to 3.0.8 with no difference in the speed of the printer > >>dialogue and other printer related topics. > >>It is still very, very slow. For example, Adobe 6.0 takes about 10 > >>seconds to show the printer dialogue. > >> > >>So it seems, that the problem is not fixed. > >>I sure think it is a problem in SP2, because I removed already SP2 and > >>all works in normal speed. > >>The problem is that you cannot go around SP2 only if you ignore any MS > >>XP updates. [...] > > > >Here's what I've learned: > > > >1) It's NOT universal, and only appears to affect certain printers/ > >print drivers. I have Canon ImageRunners that have this problem, > >but I have several HP printers and a Ricoh color laser that doesn't. > >The Canon printers have the problem no matter what driver I attempt > >to print with (they support PCL and PostScript.) I've tried every > >version of both languages that I could get my hands on. True. I use a CANON color driver or a Kyocera KX driver for the KM2530. Allways the same problem. HP drivers from the Windows CD does not have the problem. > > > >2) It IS an issue with Windows XP SP 2 and Samba. If I change > >either of those, i.e., uninstall SP2 or share the printer on another > >Windows machine (or use a print method other than smb) the problem > >goes away. same here. > > > >3) You can work around the problem by printing to CUPS/IPP directly. > >When setting up the printer select "network" printer and then select > >the "connect to a printer on the Internet..." radio button. Then > >you can use the url "http://<servername>:631/printers/printername" > >to connect to your printer. This has the distinct drawback of [...] This is a non point 'n print solution... [...] > > > >>Bret Jordan schrieb: > >>>Also if your printers are in a different VLAN check your firewall > >>>rules and or router ACLs to make sure the CUPs/Samba server can talk > >>>about to the clients correctly. When you do a packet capture you > >>>will see what I am talking about. > >>> > >>>Bret > >>> > >>>Darrin Yeager wrote: > >>>>>On the printer server, we are running samba 3.0.1, and on the WINS > >>>>>server we are running an older version, 2.2.5. > >>>>>Recently, some of our computers were upgraded to XP SP2. After the > >>>>>upgrade, accessing the samba shared printers from the XP machines > >>>>>was incredibly slow. It would take tens of seconds to even bring > >>>>>up the printer status window, and printing from acrobat could take > >>>>>several minutes. > >>>> > >>>>You'll have to upgrade the 3.0.1 box - MS introduced a bug in XP > >>>>SP2 for printing which samba fixed in the later versions (> 3.0.5 I > >>>>believe). > >>>> > >>>>Look at the release notes for the latest samba version and search > >>>>for "SP2" and you'll see the problem. > >>>> > >>>>http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.8.html Not mentioned before: 1st. On my system the problem only occurrs, when the client has a local devicemode ! This is created, when the user changes some settings of the printer. The devicemode is located in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections\<servername,printer_name>. No more slow down, after deleting the devicemode. Could you please verify, if this is true in your enviroments? 2nd. All drivers I tried out, only have this problem, if they have a large private data field in the devicemode. Maybe the problem is related to this. 3rd. The slow down is a loop through the printer's registry values. In the network trace I can see GetPrinterData calls over and over. Hopefully someone gets an idea, how to work around this MS bug. Greetings, Martin -- Martin Zielinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Development SEH Computertechnik GmbH www.seh.de -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba