[Samba] my printers are still paused in Win2k and WinNT 4.0
Van Sickler, Jim
vansickj-eodc at Kaman.com
Wed Jul 17 17:17:03 GMT 2002
Ain't this fun?!? :-(
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Drinkwater [mailto:Shane_Drinkwater at pa-ucl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:27 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] my printers are still paused in Win2k
> and WinNT 4.0
>
>
> Jim,
> Again no dice. This is a very strange problem!?! I am now debating to
> compile LPRng with done_jobs=0 to see if that works( at this
> point I doubt
> it).
I might have missed a clue - is the printer saying it's Paused,
or the last job printed saying that it's Paused after being printed?
:done_jobs=0 relates to the printed job, not the printer...
Do you have guest ok=yes in the printer's subsection
in smb.conf?
e.g.
[HP4Plus]
guest ok=yes
or
[Printers]
guest ok=yes
> I also have some more interesting data for the problem
> 1.)The HP 4m printer all of a sudden started to work it showed
> "ready"!! I come back about 5 mins later and it showed
> "pause" again????
> This means other print jobs on the printer are affecting the
> samba print queue...
See if it shows Paused when it's in Power Save mode, and
Ready when it's in Ready mode.
If the JetDirects are 10/100, try setting them to 10MHz/Half Duplex
and see if it changes anything. 100Base-TX Full Duplex doesn't
do much ack/nack'ing, IIRC.
> 2.) I have switched everything over to tcp 9100 and
> back again to
> lpd after testing the done_jobs parm still no fix.....
I've used both-9100 may enable Bi-Directional comms; raw
doesn't, IIRC.
> 3.) I have never printed a job on this server it is a test. I
> figured that print_jobs=0 means that lprng keept old jobs
> around to so I
> cleared out all of the queues and reset up the printers. again paused
> printer,, With no print jobs ????
That's what made me think about whether the printer status was Paused,
and not the print job...
> 4.) Is CUPS better for communicating status info with
> samba? I would
> hate to switch to CUPS since CUPS looks more complicated.
Me too...
> 5.) is there a way to get samba to kick out more
> detailed info about
> the printer status( or what it thinks is the printer status).
Kick the log level up to 3 for more, up to 10 for a LOT more...
> 6.) I am checking the status by double clicking on the computer.
> then the printers share on that computer. I then click on a
> printer and wait
> for the refresh on my win2k to say ready or fail....
Were these printers installed when using an older version of
samba? If so, try adding "disable spoolss=yes"
and "use client driver=yes" to [Global] in smb.conf
then restart samba and see if they're still flaky.
Jim
>
> Shane
> Any Ideas are helpful!!!
>
> P.S. The Damm printer show ready again as I write you this
> message. I will
> check it in the morning..
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Van Sickler, Jim [mailto:vansickj-eodc at Kaman.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: 'Shane Drinkwater'
> Cc: Samba-L (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Samba] my printers are still paused in Win2k
> and WinNT 4.0
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shane Drinkwater [mailto:Shane_Drinkwater at pa-ucl.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:02 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] my printers are still paused in Win2k and WinNT 4.0
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim,
> > I have placed the done_jobs in my lpd.conf and it didn't fix
> > the problem.
>
> try done_jobs=0
>
> (maybe the space between = 0 is causing it to be ignored?)
>
> > How can the done jobs parm effect the samba system if the
> > queues don't list out any jobs to print???
>
> If you look in your lpd spool dir, you'll see the last
> job is still there; LPRng knows it's purpose, but
> samba doesn't...lpq will tell you that there are
> no printable jobs, but samba sees it as Paused...
>
> I'm running OpenBSD, and putting it in lpd.conf didn't
> fix it for me, either. Putting :done_jobs=0 in the
> .common section worked for me.
>
> Here's a snippet of my /usr/local/etc/printcap:
> ------------------------------------------------
> .common:cm=Common
> Settings:done_jobs=0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:mx=0:sh:lf=log \
> :lpd_force_poll=:lpd_poll_time=30:max_servers_active=0
>
> hp4plus:cm=HP4Plus by Graphics PC:tc=.common:rm=149.158.23.170:rp=9100
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Maybe this will help.
>
> Jim
>
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