Spooling to a network printer

[Bill Grzanich]

Thanks for the suggestion, Ryan, but in my case it doesn't appear to help.
I did restart lpd after enabling the option to send EOF. Any spooling to the
printer while a manual-feed job is pending still takes forever... or a
minute or two, anyway.  Very mysterious.

-Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Detert" <rcdetert at ucdavis.edu>
To: "Bill Grzanich" <organix4 at mindspring.com>
Cc: "Samba mailing list" <samba at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Spooling to a network printer


> I think I remember having the same problem. I fixed it by using printtool
> and selecting the option to send an EOF to every print job
>
>
> -ryu
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Bill Grzanich wrote:
>
> > Hello, All.
> >
> > I'm running Samba 2.0.7 on a VA Linux (RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14)
server,
> > and for the most part everything runs as expected.  However, when
someone
> > prints something to a network printer that requires manual feed, all
> > subsequent printing to that printer "hangs" the Windows clients until
the
> > manual feed job is complete.  Is this normal?  I would expect that other
> > print jobs would still spool to the server and allow the Windows clients
to
> > continue, though they may not print until the manual feed job has been
> > completed.  The printer I'm testing is an HP LaserJet 5Si with a
JetDirect
> > card and 8MB of memory.
> >
> > While the manual feed job is pending, the result of lpq is:
> >
> > linux02: waiting for 10.111.1.99 to come up
> > Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
> > 1st    bob        747  MicrosoftWord-Document4               273 bytes
> >
> > connection to 10.111.1.99 is down
> >
> > Once the job is complete, lpq shows:
> >
> > JetDirect lpd: no entries
> >
> > The Samba Printing.txt document suggests setting up a "raw" printer, but
I
> > think that may only apply to printers directly attached to the server
> > parallel port.  Further, it suggests using "lpr -b -P...", but -b does
not
> > appear to be a valid switch for the current version of RedHat's lpr.
> >
> > The Windows98 clients are configured to spool print jobs in "RAW"
format.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how I might correct this behavior or troubleshoot
> > further?
> >
> > The relevant portions of my smb.conf are below.
> >
> > Thanks very much for any suggestions.
> >
> > -Bill Grzanich
> >
> >
> > [global]
> >         workgroup = ORGANICS
> >         netbios name = LINUX02
> >         server string = Samba Server
> >         security = DOMAIN
> >         domain logons = No
> >         encrypt passwords = Yes
> >         password server = *
> >         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> >         max log size = 50
> >         username map = /etc/smbusermap.conf
> >         domain master = No
> >         local master = No
> >         preferred master = No
> >         os level = 0
> >         announce as = NT Workstation
> >         announce version = 4.0
> >         socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> >         keepalive = 1800
> >         message command=/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s
> >         guest account = smbuser
> >         create mask = 0777
> >         directory mask = 0777
> >         hosts allow = localhost, 10.111.1.0/255.255.255.0
> >         print command = lpr -r -P%p %s
> >         lpq command = lpq -P%p
> >         lprm command = lprm -P%p %j
> >         printer driver file = /home/samba/printer/printers.def
> >         map hidden = Yes
> >         map system = Yes
> >         map archive = Yes
> > ...
> > [printer$]
> >         comment = Printer driver share
> >         path = /home/samba/printer
> >         public = Yes
> >         browseable = Yes
> > ...
> > [Basketball]
> >         comment = HP5Si (Basketball)
> >         path = /var/spool/samba
> >         printable = Yes
> >         public = Yes
> >         create mode = 0700
> >         printer driver=HP LaserJet 5Si PCL 5e
> >         printer driver location=\\%h\printer$\hplj5si
> >
> >
> >
>