[Samba] Printers Always Paused - A Solution

[SANTOS Alexandre Moutinho]

Every time my HP Laserjet 6P connected to a JetDirect Print Server is
printing, the status in Windows 98/2K changes to Paused. After finishing, it
turns to Online/Ready again...

-----Original Message-----
From: Van Sickler, Jim [mailto:vansickj-eodc at Kaman.com]
Sent: segunda-feira, 19 de Agosto de 2002 23:07
To: 'Joel Hammer'; Shane Drinkwater; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: [Samba] Printers Always Paused - A Solution


Or have "OfficeJet 570" in the Comment...

:-(

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:01 PM
> To: Shane Drinkwater; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Printers Always Paused - A Solution
> 
> 
> 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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