LPRng: FW: [Samba] my printers are still paused in Win2k and WinNT 4.0

[Van Sickler, Jim]

It's not only the name, I just found out...

I have an OfficeJet 570,

and the following entry in my smb.conf would
result in a persistent Paused status:

[HP570]
        comment = OfficeJet 570 by HP450C Plotter
        path = /var/spool/samba/hp570
        writeable = no
        printable = yes
        printer name = hp570
        use client driver = no

Changing the comment to "HP570 Color InkJet by HP450C Plotter"
cleared the Paused status....thanks for the fix!!!

Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Perkins [mailto:john at cs.wisc.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:14 AM
> To: lprng at lprng.com
> Subject: Re: LPRng: FW: [Samba] my printers are still paused in Win2k
> and WinNT 4.0
> 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:10:32 -0400
> "Van Sickler, Jim" <vansickj-eodc at Kaman.com> wrote:
> 
> > Shane's using LPRng...
> > 
> > sounds like a bug to me...
> 
> I thought this was a SAMBA bug when I ran up against it.
> 
> The strings SAMBA looks for are in 
> source/printing/lpq_parse.c, lines 948-950 (as of Samba 
> 2.2.4).  "off" is in the list of things to interpret as 
> special.  As is the word "paper", so if you have any printers 
> with "paper" in the name, the status will always show up as 
> "Paused" or "Stopped" to windows users.  
> 
> We ran across this with our color printer queues "cl-paper" 
> and "cl-slide" (paper and transparency media, respectively).  
> cl-paper was always "Paused", even though it processed jobs.  
> Apparently Samba thought it was out of paper...
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