> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 13 06:30:32 2000
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:15:47 -0400
> From: "William R. Knox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Re: LPRNGLIST Various problems with 1 major one
>
> I wrote a note to the list about this very problem back on 8/22 (subject
> "Print jobs coming out on wrong printer"), and received the reply that
> it was most likely someone forgetting to change the default printer on
> their Windows desktop. Now, I've seen someone who had a print job come
> out of a printer that was buildings away and which they did not have set
> up on their Windows box. In addition (and this is the good part), they
> had the _banner_ come out of the correct printer. Our print servers are
> often fairly busy and are often running concurrent print jobs, but I had
> not played around with forcing it to happen. In addition, we will often
> have print jobs being forwarded from the print server which received the
> job with Samba to the print server which will send the job to the
> printer.
>
> To sum up - someone sends a print job to a Solaris 2.6 box running samba
> 2.0.7, which prints the job with LPRng 3.6.23, and the banner page (if
> banner pages are being printed) comes out of the correct printer, but
> the job comes out of the wrong printer.
>
> I think there may be a serious issue here. If there needs to be some
> experimentation done to solve it, I am more than willing, as my neck is
> getting near the block for this (we have reviews coming up, and if
> someone's poor review gets printed out on an unexpected printer and not
> picked up, someone's going to get cheesed off, to say the least). I will
> start to play around to see if I can force problems to happen in the
> meantime.
>
> --
> Bill Knox
> Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> The MITRE Corporation
>
Oh my oh my oh my... I have a funny feeling I know what the problem is.
Question 1: what are these printers?
Question 2: are you using the Appsocket protocol?
Question 3: are you running a DNS server on the spooler? Is it in caching mode?
Question 4: do you use DHCP? and are your DNS entries being updated?
I hate to say this, but I think this is a network/DNS/TCP-IP problem...
Patrick
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
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