[WBEL-users] Samba and print queues/printing

Paul subsolar@subsolar.org
Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:27:00 -0500


Go into the print manager for your window's system and check to see how
many print jobs are listed. If it hows 1001 it's because of a bug in
Samba ... if that's the issue you are having I wish I knew the answer.

Regards,
paul

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 08:38, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> I have a Tosh laser accessible for Windows 2K clients via samba/cups on
> my WBEL server.
> 
> Printing is fine from Windows PCs except that if you look at the print
> queue it shows old jobs as if they were still in the queue - sometimes
> stretching back several days - at the moment, the Tosh allegedly has 93
> jobs waiting.
> 
> As a side issue I had an Epson Stylus C62 setup on the Linux server too
> - this worked fine until a month or so ago and now print jobs from
> Windows clients just go nowhere. The printer was originally setup on a
> USB port but I've now moved it to a parallel port. I seem to recall that
> maybe a Samba update came down via yum at around this time but can't be
> sure.
> 
> Both the Tosh and The Epson print OK from the Linux world.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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