Paul Sanders
2001-Mar-29 13:26 UTC
print job not showing in queue but still sent to printer...
Good Morning to all: I am running Samba 2.2a3 on RHL 6.2 and have experience a troubling problem: a user was printing a large job [~2000 duplex pages] from accesson an NT workstation to an HP 8100 via the aforementioned samba box. The problem was that about half way throught he job the printer began leaving toner splooge on the output so we needed to pause the queue to fix it - the queue showed as empty when viewed both from NT and on the samba box. I tried lpq, lpc status, and webmin - all showed nothing in the queue. Now, this job is ~ 50 Mb overall and the printer only has 24 Mb RAM. While it was printing I observed that the incoming data indicator was showing that data was being sent: one page would print [it is actually a merge of a page billing information and a customized letter duplexed to a single page] , there would be a 5-10 sec pause and the next page would print and the data light would flash. This tells me that samba was still despooling to the printer as the job progressed. if that is the case, then why is there nothing in the queue that I can pause whilst repairing the tempermental printer? The entire job left the client workstation and was sent to the samba queue [else it would not be printing inthe first place..] and is trickling out to the printer...but from where???? The job was obviously too large to entirely spool to the printer RAM so where is the rest of the job coming from? I greatly appreciate any input on this issue. I have tried searching archives but nothing quite matches this situation. Thanks in advance... Paul Sanders = :^ ) >