Re: [Samba] Samba's Printer Going Off-Line (after a Win98 Machine speaks to it)

2002-11-14 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Steve Thom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having similar issues with my samsung ML1650. The ready light > routinely goes "red" after printing. I usually flip open the top > cover and shut it, which wakes the printer up to go ahead and print > the job. Powering it down would usually result in

Re: [Samba] Samba's Printer Going Off-Line (after a Win98 Machine speaks to it)

2002-11-14 Thread Elizabeth Barham
James Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sounds like a power management problem on the printer. Have you > tried disabling power save. I think that model has one. > > James Hi James, Thank you for responding so quickly. I have not seen any power management option on any of the p

[Samba] Samba's Printer Going Off-Line (after a Win98 Machine speaks to it)

2002-11-14 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, I have a light firewall machine that also acts as a Samba print server for a Win32 host on my intranet. For some reason, if the Win98 machine hasn't printed for an extended length of time, the printer goes off-line. When the Win32 tries to print, the printer throws an error and we have to u

Re: [Samba] [ns]mbd, sync'ing of disks, and hdparm

2002-10-30 Thread Elizabeth Barham
John Benedetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I _think_ it might be Samba re-reading the smb.conf, though I am no expert, > so you might want to see what other people on the list say... > > Not sure how to tell you how to make it not do that... Your response was much better than the others. Than

[Samba] [ns]mbd, sync'ing of disks, and hdparm

2002-10-29 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, I run a little router/firewall that also acts as a print server for the linux and win98 clients on the LAN. I have the harddisk configured so that if there is little activity, it spins down (hdparm -S 12 /dev/hda). I added smbd/nmbd today and with the two services running, the hard disk drive