[Samba] windows printer queue display fails

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Tue May 13 11:35:46 GMT 2003


Just guessing.

What happens if you remove the lpq command parameter but leave in the
printing = cups parameter?

Joel


On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:44:33AM +0200, Christoph Litauer wrote:
> I am driving a Suse 8.2 linux with cups 1.1.18 and samba 2.2.7a.
> 
> The problem:
> The host serves several printers via cups. If some jobs are in one of
> the queues "lpq -Pprinter" or "lpstat -o printer" shows up the complete
> listing. Fine.
> Connected to the same print queue from a Windows (XP/NT/98/2k) box I
> cannot see the complete listing. Sometimes I see some of the jobs, most
> of the times I don't see any.
> Executing "lpq -S printhost -P printer" on the W2k host gives correct
> results.
> I connected via smbclient to the (samba-)printer, did a "queue" command
> - same result, no or not all jobs are displayed.
> 
> My smb.conf (the relevant parts):
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> [global]
>           workgroup = UNIKO
>           netbios name = PRINTHOST
>           security = SERVER
>           encrypt passwords = Yes
>           password server = tricia
>           time server = Yes
>           unix extensions = Yes
>           socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
>           character set = ISO8859-15
>           os level = 2
>           veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/
>           printing = sysv
>           printcap name = /etc/printcap
> 
> [printers]
>           comment = All Printers
>           path = /var/tmp
>           create mask = 0600
>           printable = Yes
>           lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o %p
>           guest ok = no
>           browseable = No
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The problem still appears even if I change
> 	printing = cups
> (and yes, my smbd is compiled against cups).
> 
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Christoph Litauer
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