I have a problem to see the print jobs in the print que for the HP1600CM on Windows computer. The printer is working fine after I switched from NT to samba(linux). I think the problem is the way the lpq program works. When I have print jobs in the que the lpq Program gives me the print jobs but doesn't exit. I have to press ctrl c to exit it. The HP printer allows only one network connection. If I am sending print jobs the one connection is taking and I don't get a response from the printer. I think that is the reason why the lpq program doesn't exit. I could not find help in the documentation maybe I was only blind. Could someone help me about that problem. Dominik Weis
> To: samba@samba.anu.edu.au > Subject: Printing to HP1600CM > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980306095537.10771A-100000@dom.hws.edu> > > When I have print jobs in the que the lpq Program gives me the print > jobs but doesn't exit. I have to press ctrl c to exit it. The HP printer > allows only one network connection. If I am sending print jobs the one > connection is taking and I don't get a response from the printer. I think > that is the reason why the lpq program doesn't exit. I could not find helpI had the same problem with lpd and Solaris - the JetDirect lpd seems to be single threaded, while it is printing, it wont respond to status requests, the client then times out. This is quite bad for samba/win95 as the windows95 machines would lockup waiting for lpq to return. Initially I disabled samba from trying to get printer status, but now all is working fine using 'jetprint' for Solaris, which I got from HP's web site. It uses some sort of interface program to talk directly to the JetDirect interface, in a protocol that presumably is capable of returning status to the client and servicing the print engine at the same time.
I was reading the reply from Matthew Geier. I would like to ask if someone found a way for Linux. HP makes only the jetadmin software for HPUX and Solaris (and NT but that doesn't count). I don't think I am the only one with that kind of problem because I think HP printers are common. I know I would have to blame it on HP but I don't think they care about Linux. Does someone know if there is a patch for the lpq print command. I think the "only" thing that the program should stop to do is to check the printer. Any other thoughts about it. Thanx Dominik Weis