[Samba] printers keep stopping
Joe Konecny
joe at freakyacres.com
Tue Dec 20 07:49:55 MST 2011
I am running Samba 3.5.8 on Ubuntu 11.04 with lpr for printing.
For reasons unknown, about 1-4 times a month at seemingly random
times, a printer will stop working. If I try to send a test page,
windows reports that there was a problem sending the test page.
To fix it I edit /etc/printcap and comment out the offending
printer, save printcap, wait about 30 seconds and then uncomment
the printer and save printcap. That's it. Then the printer starts
working again. Does anyone have any ideas on what would cause this?
[global]
workgroup = ENDOR
map to guest = Bad User
passwd chat =
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
smb ports = 139
add user script = useradd -s /bin/false %u
add user to group script = /usr/sbin/adduser %u %g
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -N -g machines -c Machine -d
/var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u
logon script = logon.bat
logon path =
logon drive = G:
logon home = \\%L\%U
domain logons = Yes
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
usershare allow guests = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
printing = bsd
print command = lpr -r -P'%p' %s
lpq command =
lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
[VOL1]
path = /usr/vol1
read only = No
inherit permissions = Yes
oplocks = No
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:directory_mode = 700
recycle:exclude = *.tmp,*.temp
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:repository = .recycle/%U
recycle:touch = yes
recycle:versions = yes
[netlogon]
path = /usr/vol1/netlogon
browseable = No
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
create mask = 0740
browseable = No
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