On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 19:17, Robin Turner wrote: > 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
Last time I had this problem it was a Windows machine using the wrong driver printing to a Samba printer - the print job was hung in the spooler on the Windows machine, and had to be blown out from there. I used Ethereal to determine the IP addy. -- Fri Jun 27 22:15:01 EST 2003 22:15:01 up 2 days, 22:01, 3 users, load average: 1.28, 1.31, 1.34 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Q: What is the difference between Texas and yogurt? A: Yogurt has culture.
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