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samba-mirror/docs-xml/smbdotconf/printing/printnotifybackchannel.xml
David Disseldorp 477e53a8cb param: disable print notify backchannel by default
In handling RemoteFindFirstPrinterChangeNotifyEx requests, the spoolss
server can establish a "backchannel" connection to the print client, as
a mechanism for sending print notifications. This behaviour is governed
by the "print notify backchannel" smb.conf parameter.

This change sets "print notify backchannel" to "no" by default, which
sees Samba respond to RemoteFindFirstPrinterChangeNotifyEx requests with
WERR_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE. In recieving such a response, print clients can
fall back to polling for print queue changes.

Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>

Autobuild-User(master): Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Mon Oct 14 18:49:41 CEST 2013 on sn-devel-104
2013-10-14 18:49:41 +02:00

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<samba:parameter name="print notify backchannel"
context="S"
print="1"
type="boolean"
xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<description>
<para>Windows print clients can update print queue status by expecting
the server to open a backchannel SMB connection to them. Due to
client firewall settings this can cause considerable timeouts
and will often fail, as there is no guarantee the client is even
running an SMB server. By default, the Samba print server will
not try to connect back to clients, and will treat corresponding
requests as if the connection back to the client failed.
</para>
</description>
<value type="default">no</value>
</samba:parameter>