Hi all, We have a strange issue with printing tdb entries not clearing. From what I can tell, this may be an issue on Solaris (5.9) but not on Linux (2.4.18) - I have 3.0.8 (and since last night .9) on a linux server and a solaris one. I don't see the problem on print queues hosted on the linux box. The symptom is that you can print from both XP and 98 and the print job appears on the printer but sometimes the entry for the job doesn't disappear if you look at the queue entries on the PC. We can end up after a busy day with the queue viewer on the PC showing several jobs pending but if you do lpstat -o on the server there's nothing in the queue. People use the queue viewer to see whether their job has finished in order to decide when to go to the printer to collect it. As I said, printing itself appears to work ok so the problem could be described as "cosmetic" but there's still a bug of some sort. Previously with 3.0.5 we did find situations where jobs would be submitted and would have status "Spooling" for ever and not go through - we're not seeing that on .8 or .9 - just this other issue. Is this perhaps related to the earlier problem? I've have a zip file containing my ntprinters.tdb, ntdrivers.tdb and a tdb file from one of the printers in case it helps. According to the queue viewer on my PC there are 4 jobs outstanding but according to lpstat the queue is clear. I can't recall whether the list strips off attachments though. I can send it to someone direct if it would help. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Sapsed "I've got 8 little fingers and only 2 thumbs, Microcomputer Support won't you leave me in peace Information Services while I get the job done?" University of Wales, Bangor Chris Rea, "I'm working on it"
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2004-Nov-30 14:04 UTC
[Samba] 3.0.8/3.0.9 printing tdb entries not clearing
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sapsed wrote: | Hi all, | | We have a strange issue with printing tdb entries not | clearing. From what I can tell, this may be an issue on | Solaris (5.9) but not on Linux (2.4.18) - I have 3.0.8 (and | since last night .9) on a linux server and a solaris one. I | don't see the problem on print queues hosted on the linux box. This was a bug introduced in 3.0.6 and fixed in 3.0.8 (at least on Intel). Yours is the second report I have on a big endian box so we still have a byte ordering problem here apparently. | Previously with 3.0.5 we did find situations where jobs | would be submitted and would have status "Spooling" for | ever and not go through - we're not seeing that on .8 or .9 - | just this other issue. Is this perhaps related to the | earlier problem? No. It's a different issue. The 'spooling job' bug was fixed in 3.0.7 I think. Can't remember exactly. I'll look at this today and the slow printing bug people have reported as well. cheers, jerry - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "If we're adding to the noise, turn off this song"--Switchfoot (2003) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBrH2+IR7qMdg1EfYRAv+UAKDcOzVG512IOp+98ikvn+weFFCwdACeKc3i CoBWKfCovRMR+AAj3+sIJIM=BiX+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----