On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 12:05, Ron Daniel wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Daniel > Sent: Monday, 2 August 2004 11:36 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Samba Printing problems > > I sent the following on Friday : > > I have 3 samba printers. They are configured in smb.conf identically > except for name of course. > > Two printers print from windows clients reliably, the others don't.
Check the perms on the spool dirs. > > The printers on the M$ boxes all configured \\server\printer as their > destination. > > I can successfully lp via unix to them. They worked on Monday and for > many months before. We rebooted the server on Monday night and now I > have problems. > > Smb.conf has not changed for months. > > It seems as though at some point in time after I print direct from Unix, > I can send one print job to the printer OK but then all subsequent ones > fail. > > Also there is another user who seems to be able to print successfully to > all three printers. > > I have checked the contents of /var/spool/lp/logs/requests and can see > successful jobs from this other userid going through OK and and the jobs > I send through as unix user going OK. > > I have also seen my one-time jobs OK but not the others. > > Seems to me as though somewhere in the print chain a security permission > is being messed with but I can't seem to find anything that is up. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Upon further trail searching, I have since found from the log.<username> > files in /var/samba/log that the problem is being reported as > > allocate_print_jobid: failed to allocate a print job for queue > nswprint > > Regards > Ron Daniel > > > > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
