> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 28 12:47:00 2000
> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:49:10 -0400
> From: "William R. Knox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Mystery Print Jobs Appearing
>
> Patrick and LPRng list readers,
> Well, put another stupid (or at least dangerous) misconfiguration on
> your list of things for which to check when whacko things start to
> happen. Here goes the explanation:
>
> As I said, we use samba to spool most of our print jobs to our various
> print servers, and upgraded samba at the same time that we upgraded
> LPRng and ifhp. In the course of the changes to samba from our old to
> our new version, there has been a change in the way that samba spools it
> files. Instead of using the old machine_name.five_seemingly
> _random_characters name, it now uses the name of the file that it gets
> from the Windows desktop. Guess how common names like, oh, say,
> "Microsoft Word - Document 1" or "IMAPmailsrv1.mitre.orgfetch" are?
> That's right, common enough that they get stepped on by someone else
> printing while they are being spooled. Which is what was happening in
> our case. Samba does not, by default, use separate paths for the spool
> directory of every printer. On our systems, it now does.
>
> Here endeth the saga of the Mystery Print Jobs. I would like to thank
> Patrick for all the help he provided in trying to track down what was
> going on with LPRng when in fact nothing was.
>
> --
> Bill Knox
> Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> The MITRE Corporation
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Amazing! Thanks Bill.
Patrick Powell
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