[Samba] Re: Printing only works sometimes
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Thu Feb 24 19:33:20 GMT 2005
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:43:45PM +0000, Joseph Carri wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Jeremy, I do understand that SCO is no longer
> popular, specially now that there's a very satisfactory alternative in the
> various forms of Linux. However, I'm afraid that that's impossible. You see
> the two UNIX machines are what the entire firms MIS system runs on. The MIS
> system has been implemented and has grown and accreted over the years (since
> 1994) and is now a real behemoth. To port it to another OS will be a major
> job.
>
> In fact the reason I need to get the printing operational is for printing MIS
> reports and other documents at the outlying locations.
>
> Could you give me an idea of what lp could do wrong to cause samba to time
> out. I'm pretty sure I could fool around with lp and get it to behave. the
> SCO lp is a very stable and reliable animal, and I've never had problems with
> it over the years, but there's always a first time ...
You need to know exactly how lp is driving smbclient. That means delving into
the horror that is lp scripts. There's a reason everyone moved to CUPS :-).
Timeouts are usually name resolution issues though.
Sorry I can't be of more help,
Jeremy.
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