Well, I just tried an experiment.
With XP Home, printing to a postscript printer on my linux box, the job is sent as multiple, sequential postscript files, each file being just one copy. Ergo, samba thinks it has received multiple different print jobs, not one job consisting of multiple copies. This is different from what I found before, suggesting that new print drivers on the windows box (XP) handle multiple copies differently.
I get multiple copies printed out with XP Home sent to my linux server. No problem. Do you see your windows client actually sending multiple copies when you print?
What is the printing system you are using?
Is the RH6.2 default "printing=bsd"
If not cups, you might modify your printing command in smb.conf to gather some information. Here is what I have with my lprng print command.
[ps] comment = Filtered for Z53 path = /tmp read only = No create mask = 0700 guest ok = yes hosts allow = 192.168. printable = Yes printing = lprng print command = echo %J %p %s >> /tmp/junkJ;\ a="`echo '%J' | sed "s/^.*- //"`" ;\ echo This is truncated $a >> /tmp/junkJ;\ /usr/bin/lpr -Pps -J"$a" %s;\ rm %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -Pps lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -Pps %j lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold ps %j lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release ps %j share modes = No use client driver = yes
That long print command captures the smb job name (%s) so I can see what really is going on (whether one or multiple jobs get sent). And, it captures the file name sent from windows (%J). The file name is truncated to remove a Microsoft prefix sent with each filename.
Below you can see the log as you suggest. The two tmp.* spooling files are the same document, for the first I request 12 pages the second 1 page.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# ls -al
totale 864
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 8192 lug 22 12:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 lug 22 09:28 ..
drwxrwxrwt 2 xfs xfs 4096 lug 22 09:29 .font-unix
-rw-rw-rw- 1 roberto tekno 352 lug 22 12:35 junkJ
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 feb 28 2002 orbit-root
srwxrwxrwx 1 postgres postgres 0 lug 22 09:29 .s.PGSQL.5432
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 24 lug 22 09:29 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
-rw------- 1 roberto tekno 420993 lug 22 12:34 tmp.smbprn.000088.JDeufV
-rw------- 1 roberto tekno 420993 lug 22 12:35 tmp.smbprn.000089.uJ5DXA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat junkJ
Microsoft Word - Test.doc ps smbprn.000088.JDeufV
This is truncated
Microsoft Word - Test.doc ps smbprn.000089.uJ5DXA
This is truncated
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]#
Joel
Roberto Fichera.
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