On Friday 27 Jun 2003 10:17 am, Robin Turner wrote: > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:36, Robin Turner wrote: > >>No, of course I haven't got a virus, but someone on our LAN has, and > >>it's printing garbage (probably its own code) to my Samba printer. One > >>line, one page, so we've got through two reams of paper this week. > >>Short of updating virus definitions and scanning all our Windows boxes > >>(eventually necessary, but a big job, especially since our institution > >>is not subscribed for virus definiton updates) is there a way I can > >>block this? > >> > >>Sir Robin > > > > Can't you simply blow out all the jobs for that printer, take the > > printer offline, scan the network for the machine that's attempting to > > communicate to your Samba printer and then blow it up? > > Since the only machines with permissions to print to the Samba server > are in our offices, I suspect the "collateral damage" would prove > unpopular. The other problem is that these bogus print jobs only come > about once a day, so switching the printer off until we got one would > not make me popular either, though it is an option. > > What tools could I use to sniff for the offending computer? > > Sir Robin
How about looking at the log of print jobs. kjobviewer will help you. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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