Thanks for writing back and the info client polling. We are using linux and we will not serve any printers so based on your input we should be ok.
Looking up the man page on "disable spoolss", NT and 2000 was mentioned a lot, but nothing about XP. We are all on XP machines and tried your suggestion, but the printer and fax folder still appeared. Is it possible that setting 'disable spoolss = no' works only with NT or 2000? Also we are using Samba 3.x.x Thanks again. Panos disable spoolss (G) Enabling this parameter will disable Sambaâs support for the SPOOLSS set of MS-RPCâs and will yield identical behavior as Samba 2.0.x. Windows NT/2000 clients will downgrade to using Lanman style printing commands. Windows 9x/ME will be unaffected by the parameter. However, this will also disable the ability to upload printer drivers to a Samba server via the Windows NT Add Printer Wizard or by using the NT printer properties dialog window. It will also disable the capability of Windows NT/2000 clients to download print drivers from the Samba host upon demand. Be very careful about enabling this parameter. Default: disable spoolss = no -----Original Message----- From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:15 PM To: panos Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Removing printers and faxes folder from windows explorer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 panos wrote: | Thanks | We have clients where things must be very simple. Of | course we can live with the folder, but making it as | clean as possible is a priority...though not at the | cost of stability. So given your warning, I am not sure | if it is worth it. | | What is client polling? client >= Windows NT fall back to lanman printing calls when the server doesn't support the rpc based printing mechanism (this is what 'disable spoolss = yes' means). the clients then poll the server for changes in printing attributes a lot. Mostly I've seen this cause problems on Solaris servers. Not sure about Linux. My guess is that Linux is probably better in this respect. Also, if you aren't going to server any printers, then it is probably also ok. cheers, jerry - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "If we're adding to the noise, turn off this song"--Switchfoot (2003) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBt27YIR7qMdg1EfYRAnvUAKDd4KKC21KRudYmFZE4yCZ5kHfeEgCgsPyr y0WQ4B4rz+tgdyJifLYWDn8= =iLzM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba