Printer Change Notification in Samba 2.2.1a

REILLY,JOHN R (HP-Roseville,ex1) jreilly at hp.com
Mon Apr 14 22:16:16 GMT 2003


> We are using samba version 2.2.1a on linux.Does it support printer
> change notification? The problem we are facing is, We have configured
> the printer share and printing is happening. But the print queue is 
> not getting refreshed automatically. Every time we need to do manual
> refresh to see the status of print jobs in print queue.

You need to update to the latest Samba 2.2.8 to get this to work correctly.

Warning: this will create a load on you system if you have lots of jobs in
in your queues and many port monitor windows open... it works a lot better
now, after all the improvements made by Jeremy and Jerry.

JohnR


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