printing with samba

[hubert.fauque@wanadoo.fr]

I have a debian machine with an epson 900 printer;
I use samba to print from another machine with windows98;

here is the problem: when printing a large job (e.g. an A4 photo
at 1440dpi) I get an error somewhere in the middle: a file
begins to arrive in /tmp and  at a random time the transfers stops:
on windows I have a message indicating an error in printing
(printer not reachable); there is nothing in the samba logfile.
It doesn't happen always at the same place; sometimes when the
file is not too big it succeeds;

If I setup the windows driver to print to a file instead of the
remote printer, and I transfer the file with smbclient and then
lpr it, all goes well.

the printer part of my samba.conf is:
[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /tmp
	create mask = 0700
	print ok = Yes
	browseable = No


I use potato with samba2.04;

thanks for any help on the cause of this problem;

Hubert
hubert.fauque@inria.fr