[Samba] 3.0.8/3.0.9 printing tdb entries not clearing

[Martin Sapsed]

Hi all,

We have a strange issue with printing tdb entries not clearing. From 
what I can tell, this may be an issue on Solaris (5.9) but not on Linux 
(2.4.18) - I have 3.0.8 (and since last night .9) on a linux server and 
a solaris one. I don't see the problem on print queues hosted on the 
linux box.

The symptom is that you can print from both XP and 98 and the print job 
appears on the printer but sometimes the entry for the job doesn't 
disappear if you look at the queue entries on the PC. We can end up 
after a busy day with the queue viewer on the PC showing several jobs 
pending but if you do lpstat -o on the server there's nothing in the 
queue. People use the queue viewer to see whether their job has finished 
in order to decide when to go to the printer to collect it.

As I said, printing itself appears to work ok so the problem could be 
described as "cosmetic" but there's still a bug of some sort.

Previously with 3.0.5 we did find situations where jobs would be 
submitted and would have status "Spooling" for ever and not go through - 
we're not seeing that on .8 or .9 - just this other issue. Is this 
perhaps related to the earlier problem?

I've have a zip file containing my ntprinters.tdb, ntdrivers.tdb and a 
tdb file from one of the printers in case it helps. According to the 
queue viewer on my PC there are 4 jobs outstanding but according to 
lpstat the queue is clear. I can't recall whether the list strips off 
attachments though. I can send it to someone direct if it would help.

Cheers,

Martin

-- 
Martin Sapsed            "I've got 8 little fingers and only 2 thumbs,
Microcomputer Support                      won't you leave me in peace
Information Services                        while I get the job done?"
University of Wales, Bangor             Chris Rea, "I'm working on it"