[Samba] Samba, CUPS and Windows Printer Queue

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jul 27 18:13:08 GMT 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 05:51, Collins, Kevin wrote:
> I've had a Samba 3.0.2 Print Server running for nearly 7 months now without
> too much of a hitch on RedHat Enterprise "ES" 3.0.  Late last week, RedHat
> issued an Errata that moved Samba from the 3.0.2 base to the 3.0.4 base.  So
> when I did the "up2date" this weekend as part of my normal maintenance, this
> server was updated and everything appeared to be fine.
> 
> Things are working, print jobs are getting sent so for the most part I am
> happy.  But, I am experiencing one problem.  The Windows printer queue (I
> have a mixed set of clients - mostly Windows 2000 and some Windows XP) show
> active jobs even *after* the job has completed.
> 
> I've checked the CUPS Web-Management console and there are no active jobs.
> Yet on my Windows machine, I have 4 printers that show to have a total of 47
> print jobs in the queue.
> 
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I have experienced this same problem - RH AS 3 upgraded to 3.0.4 and
printed jobs remain visible in the queue. I haven't spent any time on
this issue yet but if you find a solution, please post it.

Thanks,

Craig



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