samba - Aug 2002 - FIXED - Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to UNIX spool er

OK, it's working now.  I waited until the production lines
were undergoing a shift change and brought down all of Samba,
then restarted it.  Printing now works just fine.  I still
don't know what caused the problem, I never saw any error
messages in the [sn]mbd or client logs, even with the log
level turned turned up to 2.

Thanks very much for the time and trouble you took to think
about my problem and respond!

Dave Windsor
AdW/MOE2.12
Team Leader, Test Systems Engineering
Robert Bosch Corporation
Anderson, SC, USA


-----Original Message-----
From: Windsor Dave (AdW/MOE2.1) 
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:54 PM
To: 'Van Sickler, Jim'
Cc: Samba-L (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Samba] Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to UNIX spooler


Jim,

I've restarted the lp spooling system more than once,
and I've checked to make sure that there are no hung
lp-related processes.  I have now also tried using all
absolute paths to the executables in the print command,
with no more success than before.

Thanks for the help,

Dave Windsor
AdW/MOE2.12
Team Leader, Test Systems Engineering
Robert Bosch Corporation
Anderson, SC, USA


-----Original Message-----
From: Van Sickler, Jim [mailto:vansickj-eodc@Kaman.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:32 PM
To: 'Windsor Dave (AdW/MOE2.1)'
Cc: Samba-L (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Samba] Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to UNIX spooler


Dave,

  If samba's spooling the jobs, and lp isn't picking them up,
I'd look closely at lp and its' status.  There may be a stalled
process that needs to be killed/restarted.  How many lp-related
processes are running?  Look for one that has been open since lunch
yesterday;  that may be the culprit.

Good luck,
  Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Windsor Dave (AdW/MOE2.1) [mailto:Dave.Windsor@us.bosch.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:11 AM
> To: 'Van Sickler, Jim'
> Cc: Samba-L (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Print jobs hang in Samba, don't go to 
> UNIX spooler
> 
> 
> I'm running the lp spooling system that comes with
> HP-UX.  I don't think that the spooler itself is a
> problem, as I have no trouble printing from a shell
> prompt.  The lp command in the print command does not
> point to a symlink, but I'll try it with an absolute
> path, just in case.  However, since the "echo" isn't
> being performed either, it looks like the print command
> isn't being executed at all.  Here's what my print
> command looks like. taken almost directly from an example
> in the smb.conf man page:
> 
> print command = echo Printing %s on %p >>/tmp/print.log; lp 
> -c -d%p %s; rm
> %s
> 
> Nothing ever appears in /tmp/print.log.  The weird thing
> is that all was fine until yesterday afternoon, when
> printing just......stopped.  No changes were made on the
> system to either Samba or the lp spooler.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dave Windsor
> AdW/MOE2.12
> Team Leader, Test Systems Engineering
> Robert Bosch Corporation
> Anderson, SC, USA
> 
>