[Samba] Print queue show jobs when queried from windows, nothing in cups

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:30:14PM -0500, William Marshall wrote:
> We have a print server running RHEL 4, w/ samba-3.0.33-0.15.el4
> 
> When viewed from windows, one queue on the system has the "remains" of 264 
> print jobs - some dating back to April, but I can't find where the 
> information is coming from. Apparently the jobs print fine, but then the 
> information sticks in the queue information.
> 
> Running lpq on the Samba system shows:
> # lpq -a
> no entries 
> 
> I dumped a few tdbs and upped my log level to 10, but I didn't see any 
> logging from cups_queue_get. I thought Samba would go into that code to 
> reload the queue information.
> 
> Any hints on what to try next to clean up my queue?

I think once the printer queue is empty you can stop Samba,
delete the specific printer tdb and restart. Should do it.
Deleting the tdb whist Samba is running should also be safe,
but I'm less confident about that :-).

Jeremy.