Cannot remove Printjob from Queue (Digest 2244)

[Michael Koehler]

Frans wrote

> Did you receive any useful tips in the mean time?

No, there was a greate silence.


>
> For one of our supported organisations I'm investigating a not able to remove print
> jobs, as well

Oh, I'm not alone.

> So I hope you would like to share the tips, in return I could try to be of assitance

> as well.

Nice,
I have additional questions to solve the problem:
are there possibilities to trace the lprm command passing from NT-->Samba-->Unix?
and with wich user the lprm command will be performed on the Unix-box?

I hope that their will be some more responses.

Michael

P.S. My last posting

>
> > we have Samba 2.0.4b on Solaris 7 with NT4-Clients Sp4/5, the same
> > happens with 2.0.5a on Solaris 2.6
> > We want to manage Printjobs from the NT-Clients and  defined the
> > commands lpq and lprm. The print queues are located on the Unix-box.
> > Every user can see the printjobs by doubleclicking on the network
> > printer symbol.
> > The name of the printjob in the queue is not the real name, you see, if
> > you are logged on the unix machine. On the NT machine you see instead
> > the username. Canceling the printjob on the NT machine does nothing.
> > Does NT try to cancel a job, named with the username??
> > Performing the the cancel command defined in smb.conf on the unix
> > machine works without problems.
> >
> > Canceling printjobs worked on solaris 2.6 until I applied  the latest
> > lp-patch. On Solaris 7 it worked never.
> >
> > Parameters in smb.conf:
> > [global]
> > printing = sysv
> > printcap name = /opt/samba/printcap
> > print command = echo Printing %s >> /u07/printtmp/print.log; lp -o
> > nobanner -d %p %s
> > lpq command = lpstat -o%p
> > lprm command = cancel %p-%j
> > load printers = yes
> > socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> > dead time = 60
> > getwd cache = yes
> > lock directory = /var/opt/samba/locks
> > share modes = yes
> >
> > [HP-5N-Market]
> > comment = HP-5N-Marketing
> > browseable = yes
> > printable = yes
> > printer = HP5N_MARK
> > printer driver = HP Laserjet 5N
> > path = /u07/printtmp
> > public = yes
> > writeable = no
> > create mode = 0700

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