In our case, the jobs being sent to the printers are fairly small across the board, with little or no graphics. The biggest problem is the time it takes Office to open up with a Samba printer set as default on the PC. If a fake local printer is installed and set as default, Office opens up quickly, but when the end user has to print, going in to select the printer can take some time to select on and then print to it. This is becoming a big problem.
I did compile the version I'm using, and for the most part took the defaults on the options. I've looked at the underlying disks (iostat is showing no problems), but not yet at the network settings on the server. We're running Gigabit from the server to the switch, all desktops are 100 Full Duplex. Our current settings are auto-auto on the Cisco switch side and auto-auto on the desktop side for Speed-Duplex. Leaving them as auto-auto or locking them down to 100 Full Duplex does not seem to make a difference. Regards, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tim Kazsuk Senior Systems Engineer The Home Depot Supply Division B2B / MRO Distribution ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: William Enestvedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 5:35 AM To: Kazsuk, Tim; samba@lists.samba.org Subject: RE: [Samba] Serious Slowness Issues with Printing Tim Kazsuk wrote about slow printing from a Solaris server with Samba 3.0.11. I, too, run Samba on a Solaris 8 server, and when I receive Office XP jobs, they can take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to print through my spooler software (Xi-Text). It seems only to be especially large jobs (more than a few thousand pages) that are this slow. I run from a sunfreeware.com package. Did you compile your own? In my case, I fear that the lpusy performance is due mostly to shared memory files on a mirrored disk; have you examined the underlying disks & networking? You know, leave no stone unturned and all that. :7) -wde -- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba