[Samba] Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to UNIX spooler

[Van Sickler, Jim]

Dave,

  Ain't this fun!?! ;-(

Look at
http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xfeb13a7b3682d611abdb0090
277a778c,00.html for an idea or two...

Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Windsor Dave (AdW/MOE2.1) [mailto:Dave.Windsor at us.bosch.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:54 AM
> To: 'Van Sickler, Jim'
> Cc: Samba-L (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to 
> UNIX spooler
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I've restarted the lp spooling system more than once,
> and I've checked to make sure that there are no hung
> lp-related processes.  I have now also tried using all
> absolute paths to the executables in the print command,
> with no more success than before.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Dave Windsor
> AdW/MOE2.12
> Team Leader, Test Systems Engineering
> Robert Bosch Corporation
> Anderson, SC, USA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Van Sickler, Jim [mailto:vansickj-eodc at Kaman.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:32 PM
> To: 'Windsor Dave (AdW/MOE2.1)'
> Cc: Samba-L (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to 
> UNIX spooler
> 
> 
> Dave,
> 
>   If samba's spooling the jobs, and lp isn't picking them up,
> I'd look closely at lp and its' status.  There may be a stalled
> process that needs to be killed/restarted.  How many lp-related
> processes are running?  Look for one that has been open since lunch
> yesterday;  that may be the culprit.
> 
> Good luck,
>   Jim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Windsor Dave (AdW/MOE2.1) [mailto:Dave.Windsor at us.bosch.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:11 AM
> > To: 'Van Sickler, Jim'
> > Cc: Samba-L (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: [Samba] Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to 
> > UNIX spooler
> > 
> > 
> > I'm running the lp spooling system that comes with
> > HP-UX.  I don't think that the spooler itself is a
> > problem, as I have no trouble printing from a shell
> > prompt.  The lp command in the print command does not
> > point to a symlink, but I'll try it with an absolute
> > path, just in case.  However, since the "echo" isn't
> > being performed either, it looks like the print command
> > isn't being executed at all.  Here's what my print
> > command looks like. taken almost directly from an example
> > in the smb.conf man page:
> > 
> > print command = echo Printing %s on %p >>/tmp/print.log; lp 
> > -c -d%p %s; rm
> > %s
> > 
> > Nothing ever appears in /tmp/print.log.  The weird thing
> > is that all was fine until yesterday afternoon, when
> > printing just......stopped.  No changes were made on the
> > system to either Samba or the lp spooler.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Dave Windsor
> > AdW/MOE2.12
> > Team Leader, Test Systems Engineering
> > Robert Bosch Corporation
> > Anderson, SC, USA
> > 
> > 
> 
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