I am attempting to get printing services for Windows 2000 clients working with Samba on a Red Hat 7.2 box. The problem is I can not cancel print jobs
(either from a PC or the local smb client). File sharing, and printing other than this problem, work fine. Here is a listing of configuration and system info: 1) the samba packages installed, 2) output of "uname -a", 3) the relevant parts of the smb.conf file, 4) printing capabilities which work, and 5) more detailed information about the problem. 1) SAMBA PACKAGES samba-2.2.1a-4 samba-common-2.2.1a-4 samba-client-2.2.1a-4 2) RED HAT LINUX Linux pegasus 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown 3) EXCERPTS FROM SMB.CONF [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = WIN # A W2K DOMAIN # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field domain logons = yes # if you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes # It should not be necessary to spell out the print system type unless # yours is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx printing = bsd ### I HAVE ALSO TRIED lprng, AND LEAVING THIS COMMENTED OUT. # Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See # security_level.txt for details. security = domain # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd printer admin = tiberius,dneilson,root print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p %j lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j queuepause command = /usr/sbin/lpc stop %p queueresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc start %p #============================ Share Definitions ============================== [lp11] comment=David's Printer path=/var/spool/samba/public valid users=dneilson mellwein printer=lp11 printable=yes printer admin=tiberius,dneilson,root print command=/usr/bin/lpr -r -P%p %s lprm command=/usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j public=yes 4) PRINTING CAPABILITIES THAT WORK I can print from the local smbclient as well as any Windows 2000 client I choose. I am able to pause and unpause the print queue. I have not had any problem printing any kind of document in the correct format. 5) MORE DETAILS OF THE PROBLEM. When I try to delete a job, Samba gives the indication it deleted the job. On a Windows 2000 client, after I delete the job and hit Refresh, the job is gone. On the local smbclient, after I cancel the job and type "queue", the job is gone. But in both cases, if I type lpstat -t from the server command line, the job is still out there. This problem can't be specific to Samba 2.2.1a, because I have tried it on a machine with 2.2.7, and have gotten the same results. In troubleshooting, I changed the "lprm command" line to read: "lprm command=/tmp/lprm %p %j". The /tmp/lprm script consists of the following: #### START SCRIPT /tmp/lprm /usr/bin/id > /tmp/lprm.out /usr/bin/lprm -P$1 $2 >> /tmp/lprm.out 2>&1 #### END SCRIPT /tmp/lprm When I cancel jobs, this script should at least create an output file, but it doesn't - which indicates it doesn't get run. As a result, I think Samba is not paying any attention to the "lprm command" line in the smb.conf. Be aware that "testparm" will show the "lprm command" as having the correct parameters (/usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j). I have checked the samba log files, and they are not written to when I try to cancel jobs. I have tried running a trace of the smbd command when I try to cancel jobs, and here is the output. It is only one line long: ### START strace OUTPUT select(1024, [9 10], NULL, NULL, NULL <unfinished ...> ### END strace OUTPUT >From the Unix command line, if I run the lprm command as myself (dneilson) "lprm -Plp11 <JOB_ID>", I can delete the job without any problem. Thanks for any help you can provide. David Neilson -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba