Just guessing, but, do the printer drivers for the problem OS's expect to have two way communication with the printer? You can't do that with samba. There may be an option to turn off two way communication.
Joel On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:40:41PM +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote: > The print server is RH 7.3 with LPRng 3.8.9 (+RH patches). The printer > is a HP8000DN (also having similar problems with some HP2100tn's) > > Some windows clients have a problem where only part of the job prints and > then gets a timeout error. I notice that before the job starts printing > a "bad transmission" error is displayed on the printer panel for a few seconds. > > This happens even with a small document such as a printer test page but only > with W2k or XP using either Windows or HP drivers. NT drivers cause > no problems. > > The problem exists using samba or Windows lpr to send the job to the > print server. It doesn't happen if the Windows boxes print directly to > the printer and it didn't happen with our previous print server (running > Tru64 Unix and Compaq's advanced printing software). > > Anybody else seen this? Any suggestions? > > > Thanks > --- > Ian > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
