10.3.2 Print server - issues

[Mark Gibson]

It must be something I've done incorrectly, Apple wouldn't possibly 
have released software with these problems surely!

We have an Xserve (Dual 1.33GHz, 2Gb of RAM, 4 x 60Gb drives) running 
10.3.2 and all the other patches to 10.3.

Its running AFP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, Open Directory, Print, Web and Windows.

Two issues:

1. File space disappears rapidly. Its gone from 20Gb free to 10Mb in 
under 24 hrs! A review of the /var/spool/cups/tmp folder found some 
400,000 files in the folder!

I've deleted the folder manually and replaced it with a new one with 
the same permissions and the space is now back.

However, surely we don't have to do this manually. Why doesn't the 
printing software delete these temporary files after the jobs are 
printed?

2. Print services are extremely fickle for PC users. The PC's connect 
as "guests" and can access the share points however on a given day a 
PC can print to a specific printer via the server and the next day 
odds are it wont.

The PC's range between Win 98, Win 2000, NT4 and Win XP Pro. 
Sometimes the Win XP machines provide an error message such as 
"access denied" but by and large the PC's users don't get any error 
messages - they send jobs to the printer and never see them again.

I don't really want to abandon the Print Services and go back to 
manually defining each printer for each PC but its looking more and 
more like the only solution.

All this on 10.3.2 which I thought was meant to IMPROVE printing ????!!!!

Does anyone know if 10.3.3 is just around the corner and addresses 
this or am I stuffed?

Any ideas?
-- 
Regards,

Mark (}-:

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