this sounds as if you have rather a lprng than a samba problem, if you do
lpr -P<printer> <captured_file_from_samba> does it produce any output ?
Please send us the output from lpc printcap <printer> and lpq -L
-P<printer>
best regards
~christoph
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jeramy Eling wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Once again thank you for your valued input. I don't mean to pass the book here but
> Samba appears to be working as it should. By using the CAT command for the print
> command I can generate the output on the Linux box and if I print using the normal
> command the spool file appears on the Linux box and then disappears as if it is
> passed to the spooler for printing. This would tend to tell me that all is well on
> the Samba front and the problem lies with my spooler setup.
>
> To answer some of your more specific questions:-
>
> i) Samba version is 2.28a
> ii) I can print from the local Red Hat box no problem what so ever.
> iii) I have changed the debug level to 6, restarted samba, sent a print and checked
> for errors in the logs and there is nothing.
> iv) I repeated each of your changes to the smb.conf file and repeated the above
> procedure and still no errors or output.
>
> I know this is a really annoying problem, I am really pulling my hair out now. Each
> day that passes is another day my Windows 2000 spooler is running, and it is failing
> big time. Yesterday the spooler crashed 4 times and all jobs that were printing at
> the time were lost, we desperately want to get off Windows for our printing.
>
> Any other suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> Jeramy
>
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