Knowing nothing about this printer, I would guess that the printer drivers for windows engage in some two way magic communication with the printer to keep it in an active state. Two way communication is not possible when samba gets between your printer and the windows client. I would: 1. Just let the printer sit by itself unattached to any computer to see if the green light goes off by itself. 2. Look at the documentation for any information about this behavior.
You may have to program your samba server to send some wakeup control character to the printer before a job is sent. This would involve likely a trivial modification to your print filter. Joel On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:11:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I recently moved an HP 1100 from a Windows 2000 server to Redhat 7.1. > The printer is using lprng and samba to allow Windows clients to print > documents. > > Since the migration, I have noticed that if the printer experiences a > long time of inactivity, it will turn itself off (i.e. the green status > light shuts off). When in this state, it will not print document > (obviously). If I press the on button, the printer starts up again and > prints without any problems. > > To confirm there was nothing wrong with the printer, I moved it back to > the Windows 2000 server and it didn't experience the problem. > > > > Does anyone know why this is happening? > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
