viewing jobs in printer queues broken in 3.0.0?

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Mon Oct 20 19:47:30 GMT 2003


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, M A Young wrote:
>
> > I am not using cups. The platform we want it for is Solaris, using
> > standard sysv print commands, though I can probably check tomorrow if cups
> > works on the linux box. It may be that viewing print jobs is "completely
> > broken" only for sysv printing!
>
> For Solaris (SysV) you may need to verify that the "lpq command" parameter
> is correct for your system. That is how Samba obtains the list of jobs.

It is. The configuration (with minor tweaks like adding a print$ share)
works fine with 2.0.10a, and does list print jobs. I also had a look at
some debugging information when I was testing this and it looked like it
was successfully reading the lpstat output.

	Michael Young



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