[Samba] Re: [cups.general] Re: Windows Clients keep finished jobs in Queue

Hamish captainmish at gmx.net
Thu Sep 30 08:54:15 GMT 2004


Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:

>On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:29, Ryan Suarez wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm also seeing this problem.  We're running samba 3.0.7 with CUPS
>>1.1.20.  The clients printing are WinXP Professional SP1.
>>
>>The jobs printed are still displayed in the Windows printer status
>>window, even though it's been printed already and disappears from the
>>CUPS printer queue list.
>>    
>>
>
>You will note that if you refresh, they disappear.  I see the problem too with 
>3.0.6. Have not tested with 3.0.7 yet.  I think it's also with WinNT clients.  
>Another person on this list reported the same refresh problem with files in 
>Explorer too.
>
>Misty
>  
>

I am having the same problem. Refresh does not clear the jobs, and CUPS 
shows the jobs as printed. It is interesting to have a complete history 
of the printer, but this confuses users! Deleting the "jobs" works, but 
is there a way to stop them filling up the windows printer "queue"?


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