[Samba] Odd LPQ behavior in 3.0.x

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Dec 10 18:48:22 GMT 2004


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Ryan Novosielski wrote:
| Here is what I'm seeing after upgrading to 3.0.x:
|
| 1) Jobs no longer properly report their status, using
| LPRng's lpq. I see, instead, no listing for status and a
| listing for number of pages in  the job. While that
| is also useful information, it does not allow me to
| act on jobs as I'd like to (resume/pause/etc).

You should see page count changes and size changes.

|
| 2) Basically EVERY job that has ever printed via Samba
| on that printer since I've upgraded is listed in the queue.
| This is not a case of  lpd_done_jobs in LPRng causing this
| -- the jobs are NOT there in lpq. If  the
| queue is empty in LPRng, there will still be hundreds
| of jobs listed in the Windows queue.

This one should be mostly fixed by 3.0.9 + the printing-3-0-9.patch
found in http://samba.org/~jerry/patches/post-3.0.9/





cheers, jerry
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