[Samba] Tru64 Samba queue display problem

abartlet at samba.org abartlet at samba.org
Sun May 26 19:37:02 GMT 2002


On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:09:47PM +1000, Daniel Frencham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems with the queue on a Tru64 box running Samba 2.2.4.
> 
> When the queue is viewed from a client machine it displays a print job with 
> fields equivalent to the first line the lpq command outputs.
> 
> For example, lpq returns:
> 
> # lpq -P itsgp_css1
> crow.qut.edu.au: Tue May 14 09:23:54 2002:
> no entries
> 
> Then if I get on a client machine (Win2k) and look at the queue there is a 
> single job as follows:
> 
> Document Name   Status  Owner   Pages
> 11:22:41                        May
> 
> So, samba seems to be passing that first line of the lpq output to the 
> client incorrectly. An old version (1.9.18) doesn't do that. Has anyone 
> seen anything like that, or have any ideas on a solution?

Quick hack:  Use the 'lpq command' smb.conf option to instead run a shell 
script that eats the first line.

Andrew Bartlett




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