[Samba] CUPS printing with Samba.

Brett Roberts brett at centralmanclc.com
Thu Nov 13 11:30:22 GMT 2003


> We're running Cups and Samba on a SUSE Linux 8.2 server with Windows 98,
NT and 
> 2000 clients. We are experiencing intermittant problems whereby 
> printers on the client PC's are setting themselves to offline when 
> print jobs are sent to them. The problem is I'm finding it difficult 
> to diagnose the cause of this as it isn't happening consistently in 
> that we'll have 25 client pc's in a room set to print to the same 
> network printer and only 4 or 5 of them will set the printer to 
> offline while the other 20 will print fine. All our printers are HP 
> 2100, 2200 and 4050's. I have checked the error log in CUPS and there are
none that seem to pertain to the problem. In the Samba logs though there are
a series of errors stating :-

ERROR: NULL dest in safe_strcpy

I don't know if this is related to the problem but would appreciate any help
with this problem

Cheers

Brett



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