On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:34, Jack Malone wrote:
I'm using suse 9.1 here on our production server with samba running. Its seems several times a month printing will stop to one or all of the printers I have attached via network to this server. To solve the problem I kill all cupsd, then go into the queue an delete all old an current print jobs in the queue, then restart cupsd. Then I go an send a test print job from server to one or two of the printer an everything works again til the next time it happens. It was only happening once a month but now it seems to happen more often. Just wondering if anyone has seen this problem an know a fix. Its not that hard to go thrue the procedure I go thrue above for me but I'm im gone then my boss tends to forgit what to do . He has pretty much left it up to me with the linux server an know very little about it.
A friend of mine is having this problem. When cups stops printing, I think you will find /usr/bin/enable <printer> (you will have to use the full path else bash will complain) will get the printers working again without restarting cups. Secondly you could try using the IPP protocol from the Window boxes instead of using samba for printing. I believe this may prevent the printer stopping for unknown reasons. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------