Hi Joel > 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.
I captured the test page as delivered by samba to the LPRng server. This is what I got: o printing the file from the LPRng server failed 22 out of 25 times. The printer shows "bad transmission" on the console before it starts printing, only part of the page prints followed by an error page. o printing the same test page from a Tru64 server succeeded 15 out of 15 times - the full page prints and no errors on the console. o loading the file into ghostscript displays the full page. Taking all that into account it looks like an LPRng problem but the weird thing is it only happens with jobs from some W2k and WXP boxes. This is all on a 100Mbps switched network - the printer and the two servers both into the same switch. I ran the tests during a quiet time when no other jobs were printing. --- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
