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.
Just installed Ethereal - a nice application! It just detected one legit print job. Even if I never catch the culprit, I can have fun sniffing round the LAN.
Sir Robin
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