On Tue, 28 May 2002, John F Flynn III wrote: > > I have encountered a bizarre problem upon moving from Samba 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 > on our local print server. > > When a client tries to map a printer, the server does a DNS lookup on the > netbios name of the client, and tries to contact that IP address. This can > fail in situations where the client's netbios and DNS names don't match, > as in a wireless network user. The failure doesn't prevent printing, but > it adds an annoying delay when mapping the printer.
See "name resolve order: in smb.conf(5). The back connection is for printer (and job) change notification. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
