As I run CUPS and always have my local drivers, I have no problem with the non automatic load of printer drivers.
But I hope for people which do not meet these conditions, that someone finds a solution to this problem. I still will support with debug logs etc, but as you write "I've been met with silence as well"
Best regards from Germany,
Walter
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.
For what it's worth, I've had this same issue and I've been met with silence as well. Also, 10 seconds is child's play, I'd have considered that GOOD. :) I was waiting for 30 seconds or more for print related dialogs to pop up.
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.
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.
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 not being able to automatically load printer drivers. Of course, you also must be running CUPS as your print backend. Also, I don't know if you can do this with Windows 9x clients, but you shouldn't be running those any more, and you don't have the slow print problem with 9x anyway. :) By using IPP, I've decreased the amount of wait time to near zero. Print related dialogs are near instant at this point.
Disclaimer: I have yet to upgrade to 3.0.8 on my production server, I am still at 3.0.7. However, I've set up a test box with 3.0.8 and I have the same issues.
HTH,
--J(K)
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
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