Re: [SLUG] Samba and Win2k Printing problem

From: Todd Robinson (mtrob@penguix.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 11:05:27 EDT


Does the offending document start to print? Can you see that the whole
document has landed in the temp print que file? Can you get the job to
print from the Linux box once it is there?

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:12, Austin Theen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been having a problem on a samba server for the past few weeks
> that's really been bugging me. I have mixed clients of Win98 and Win2k
> being served from a samba 2.2.7a box. the server has a hp laserjet 5
> hung off lp0 and shared with cups & samba. everyone prints fine (test
> pages and documents).
>
> except every once in awhile the win2k box tries to print large documents
> (usually multi-page faxes) that hangs the print queue. I've upgraded
> cups to the latest and samba doesn't mention any print updates to 2.2.8a
> so I'm thinking its a configuration issue. I'm stumped, I've googled for
> any error or solution and can't find anything.
>
> I've set them up to be able to remove the offending job from the print
> queue with the cups web interface, but that's not a solution, its a hack
> to get it back working.
>
> Anyone got any ideas what I can do?

-- 
Todd Robinson <mtrob@penguix.com>

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