1. maybe it's a cups problem. can you start/stop jobs with the same users in the web interface of the cups? 2. it's a cups problem. You should check how the policy of the printer is defined. By default it stops the printer.
This is a example of a printer that stops when it found any problem: <Printer wxp-ti-01> Info Ti DeviceURI lpd://10.1.2.14/cola State Idle StateTime 1180982800 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> This is a example of a good policy... here, the printer never stops: <Printer wxp-ti-01> Info Ti DeviceURI lpd://10.1.2.14/cola State Idle StateTime 1180982800 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy abort-job </Printer> I have the following cronjob to fix this, 'coz support people never understoud the procedure i gave... #!/bin/bash sed -e 's/stop-printer/abort-job/' /etc/cups/printers.conf >/etc/cups/printers.c onf.1 mv /etc/cups/printers.conf.1 /etc/cups/printers.conf Bye. > Hi > > We're using samba as a PDC with LDAP-backend on a freebsd based system. > Now I got two questions about Samba and Cups. > > 1. Group Print Operators > There is a pre defined group called "Print Operators", GID 550. > But if a user is part of this group, he isn't able to start/stop jobs or > printers. Is there something I need to configure? > Users in the "Domain Admin" group are able to start/stop jobs or printers. > > 2. Printers are often paused > Every day I need to resume one or more printer because they are > automatically paused. Does anybody know why this may happen? > > Thanks for your help > > Pascal > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
