[Samba] allocate_print_jobid: failed to allocate a print job for queue

[Jarle Thorsen]

On Friday 02 March 2007 14:48, you wrote:
> Jarle Thorsen wrote:
> > I have a printer connected to a linuxbox running Samba and Cups. I have
> > followed the instructions in the Samba-HOWTO to export the printerdriver
> > a a machine running Windows XP. When I try to print to the printer
> > Windows says "Access denied", and in /var/log/samba/log.xp I get:
> >
> >  [2007/02/21 18:24:20, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(693)
> >   xp (192.168.1.101) connect to service Canon_i965 initially as user
> > jarle (uid=1000, gid=1000) (pid 18102)
> > [2007/02/21 18:24:20, 0] printing/printing.c:allocate_print_jobid(2241)
> >   allocate_print_jobid: failed to allocate a print job for queue
> > Canon_i965
>
> Corrupt tdb in $lockdir/printing/ ?  Try removing the
> Canon_i965.tdb file.

This did the trick! Now everything seems to work like a charm. (I had to 
restart samba after deleting the .tdb file though..)

Maybe something should be done to improve the error checking? When logging in 
log-level 10 I was told that there was not enough free space... And it turns 
out that my problem did not have anything to do with storagespace....