[Samba] windows printer status not update

steven stevenng at lcp.com.hk
Tue Sep 7 04:44:52 GMT 2004


I got the following problems using samba 3.06(with patch from samba site) on
RH7.3:
1.windows printer status not update
    printer status on client windows machine keep all the printed jobs if no
delete the job status.
2. smbd has the following log:
    [2004/09/07 11:27:22, 0] lib/substitute.c:alloc_sub_basic(505)
    alloc_sub_basic: NULL source string!  This should not happen
    [2004/09/07 11:27:22, 0] printing/print_generic.c:print_run_command(67)
    Invalid snum 5 for command lpq -P'%p'
    [2004/09/07 11:27:22, 3]
printing/printing.c:print_queue_update_internal(1060)
     0 jobs in queue for
    [2004/09/07 11:27:23, 2] tdb/tdbutil.c:tdb_log(725)
    tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: /usr/local/samba/var/locks/printing/.tdb
(770,0) is already open in this process
    [2004/09/07 11:27:23, 0] printing/printing_db.c:get_print_db_byname(106)
    get_print_db: Failed to open printer backend database
/usr/local/samba/var/locks/printing/.tdb.

my smb.conf configure has " lpq command = lpq -P'%p'
Printting is OK.





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