Printers get paused on some print jobs

[Christian Barth]

Is this on a RedHat-System? RH 5.x? We have / had the same problems 
there. They are not due to samba but because of the lpd RedHat ships. 
This lpd sometimes doesn't like the talk with other lpd, like the one 
in HP printers. It's not realy reproduceable. We changed the lpd 
versions and it got a bit more stable. Currently we are using lpd-
0.46-1. Havn't done it my self, but I know people that sware on lprng 
(www.lprng.org)

Christian


 
> 
> I have Samba 2.0.7 installed and accepting Domain logins for my Win9x clients.
> There are approximately 40 clients logging into the machine so it is not an
> overworked installation.  I also have 8 - 10 print ques set up in the
> /etc/printcap (depending on how many problems I'm having at the time) and
> unfortunately I'm having problems getting some print jobs to print out.
> Occasionally the print jobs don't print and the printers seem to go into a
> "paused" mode that won't clear up until I manually clean out the que and restart
> lpd.  This is getting rather annoying.
> 
> I'm not certain if this is a Samba problem, and lpd problem, or a problem with
> the printer.  However, I am getting a lot of errors in the lpd logs that say
> that it has lost the connection to the printer and it is restarting that
> printer, which seems odd if it is still printing most of the time.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas on this I would be greatful.  I am also considering
> changing spooling mechanisms so if you have a suggestion that would be good too.
> 
> Chris Tooley
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