[Samba] Samba printing fails for Windows clients, was working, now fails...

[Eric Hines]

At 12/21/05 06:48, Dennis B. Hopp wrote:
>activity superstore wrote:
>
>>Hi all
>>
>>The printing via Samba+Cups has stopped working. I'm
>>using Mandrake 10.0 Official as a Samba server for
>>file sharing and printing on a Windows network.
>>Printing from a WindowsXP client to the Samba server
>>now fails and I don't know why it has suddenly
>>stopped, it used to work. File sharing still works
>>okay.
>>
>>There are on no errors logged on the Linux Samba box,
>>the Windows application you try to print from just
>>says "not responding". I have used Knoppix as a client
>>and the printing works from Samba, so it is just a
>>Windows client to Linux Samba issue, but I can't
>>figure it out.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Samba version samba-server-3.0.2a-3mdk
>>
>That's an old version of Samba.  I got to imagine Mandrake (or 
>Mandriva or whatever they are called now) has released a newer 
>package.  Can you try to upgrade?
>
>--Dennis

Yes, but it was working.  OP doesn't report changing anything, in 
particular, the OS or Samba.  Why would it quit out of the 
blue?  Could there be a print log file (or some such) that's gotten 
too big and hangs the print process?  Could the print server itself 
(I use a Netgear doofer that plugs into the back of my Samsung) have 
failed?  A Lynksys that I used prior to the Netgear did quit on me; 
replacing that got me my printing back.

On the other hand, it probably would be worth the effort to upgrade 
Samba on GPs; 3.0.21 is sufficiently advanced over 3.0.2a that that's 
worth the effort in its own right.

Eric Hines


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