oh sorry ... I should have mentioned it.. well it was many things all of which the various people suggested. thanks again. 1.initial problem was lpq will only let you spool files < xMb so I changed the print command to lp -d%p %s. 2. I had to realize that to reflect any changes in the smb.conf from the clients you have to logout and back in. (small point that took alot of time) 3. so now the printing worked fine but the spool files stayed (of course) because I was no longer using lpq. so I added lp -d%p %s;rm %s which didnt work because the rm command ran before lp was finished with the file.. 4. changed print command to lp -c -d%p %s;rm %s still didnt work because I had mx=0 in the printcap instead of mx#0 (unlimited spool file size) 5. fix printcap .. and presto! every thing works fine now. sorry for not posing the soloution originally. I am a newbie.. :) Robert
Robert wrote:> > oh sorry ... I should have mentioned it.. > > well it was many things all of which the various people suggested. > thanks again. > > 1.initial problem was lpq will only let you spool files < xMb so I >You mean lpr? Where does this limitation come from? /etc/printcap? Looking at the man page of printcap: mx num 1000 maximum file size (in BUFSIZ blocks), zero unlimited Is this option set for the printer? [...] -- Ciao ... Heiko Nardmann