On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:33 +0000, Nick Gushlow wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've got a PDF printer setup on one of my Samba boxes that has been > running fine for months; however I'm now having problems with it despite > that fact that I've made no changes to Samba and performed no upgrades. > > I'm thinking that the problem might be to do with a client PC sending a > large/corrupt stream to the printer. > > Problem Symptoms: > - Samba process showing 50% CPU usage constantly > - Windows clients attempting to print report printer not responding > (after a long time) or crash > > What I've tried: > - Renaming printer - works as normal > - Removing corrupt spool / temp files - none found > in /var/spool/samba /tmp /tmp/samba > - Look for possibly offending client PC in logs - none found (could be > I'm not looking for the right thing). > > Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong and how to solve it?
Are you sure its the printer? If so, maybe you could try using a different driver - we use an HP Colour Laserjet driver here, maybe you could experiment with others - as long as its postscript it will work. Hope that helps, H
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