[Samba] Samba's Printer Going Off-Line (after a Win98 Machine speaks to it)

[Steve Thom]

I am having similar issues with my samsung ML1650. The ready light routinely
goes "red" after printing. I usually flip open the top cover and shut it,
which wakes the printer up to go ahead and print the job. Powering it down
would usually result in 10 pages of junk.

I have tried two different ethernet print servers, but still get the same
results. I am using windows print drivers, no spoolss, raw print queue to
the IP address and port, lprng. My windows machine is Windows 2000
Professional, SP3 (rats... I'll bet that was a bad move...).

Any ideas?
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hubbard" <jhubbard at mcs.uvawise.edu>
To: "Elizabeth Barham" <lizzy at soggytrousers.net>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba's Printer Going Off-Line (after a Win98 Machine
speaks to it)


> It sounds like a power management problem on the printer.  Have you
> tried disabling power save.  I think that model has one.
>
> James
>
> Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I have a light firewall machine that also acts as a Samba print
> > server for a Win32 host on my intranet. For some reason, if the Win98
> > machine hasn't printed for an extended length of time, the printer
> > goes off-line. When the Win32 tries to print, the printer throws an
> > error and we have to unplug the printer and then plug it back in. It
> > then tries to finish the print job which doesn't look too pretty (its
> > an HP Laserjet 5L).
> >
> >    What is very strange is that that particular machine also is the
> > lpd print server and there are no problems whatsoever printing from an
> > lpd client; the only time the printer goes off-line is after a Win32
> > client speaks with the Samba Print Server, probably when the Win32
> > client shows the print dialog.
> >
> >    Any ideas on what is causing this problem and possibly a solution?
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Elizabeth
>
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