[Samba] Printers Always Paused - A Solution
Joel Hammer
Joel at HammersHome.com
Mon Aug 19 13:02:01 GMT 2002
Boy, this makes you realize how quirky this software is.
I guess you better not call your printer "disabled_persons_only" or
"down_town", etc.
Joel
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:46:27PM -0500, Shane Drinkwater wrote:
> Paul,
> That works pretty slick!!!!
> Thank you
> Shane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Cochrane [mailto:paul at tortc.tuht.scot.nhs.uk]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 9:56 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Printers Always Paused - A Solution
>
>
> I had a problem with Samba 2.2.5 with the printers being
> permanantly paused to Windows machines. They could print OK - it
> was only the status that was wrong.
>
> The reason for this was because I had used the word office in the
> printer name / comment. This was causing the parser which
> recognises the printer status to find 'off' pausing the printer.
>
> A quick fix for this is to replace the line in source/printing/lpq_parse.c
>
> Do a search for the line stat1_strings is defined and put a space on
> both sides of off. The line should read something like
>
> static char *stat1_strings[] = { "offline", "disabled", "down", " off ",
> "waiting", "no daemon", NULL };
>
> This stops the printer being paused (after recompiling & restarting).
> This might cause a problem if your printer status does actually report
> "off" somewhere in the line but a quick test of a HP jetdirect printer
> didn't mention off at all when turned off.
>
> Hope this helps someone somewhere cause I spent a couple of
> hours trying to solve this
>
>
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