[Samba] Re: Urgent Help Please

[daniel.jarboe at custserv.com]

> I've been having issues with Win98 printing on RedHat ES 3, which is
using
> Samba 3.0.2-6.ES.  The WinXP computers print fine, but the Win98 ones
tend
> to lose the print queue and I've noticed that even if they print job
files
> tend to remain in the /var/spool/samba directory.

Are these zero-byte smbprn files, or is there really print data there
that just doesn't get submitted to cups for some reason?  If they are
zero-length then check your samba logs for the client/machine in
question.  I've seen zero length smbprn files with corrupted print
tdb's.

~ Daniel











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