Hi everyone, I am using Samba 2.2.3a on a Redhat Linux 7.2 Intel server as a printserver on a W2K PDC network. I have a Xerox 440 printer, an HP 4500 PS and an HP 4550 PS printer using my Samba printserver. I am often receiving the following error message: ERROR: syntaxerror OFFENDING COMMAND: STACK: at which point printing stops and the printers start saying TIMEOUT. Sometimes I can reprint missing pages, but sometimes I can not print the document at all, no matter what I do. We are using lprng Has anyone heard of this problem? Please let me know. Thanks, Kevin Bramblett
Hi everyone, I am using Samba 2.2.3a on a Redhat Linux 7.2 Intel server as a printserver on a W2K PDC network. I have a Xerox 440 printer, an HP 4500 PS and an HP 4550 PS printer using my Samba printserver. I am often receiving the following error message: ERROR: syntaxerror OFFENDING COMMAND: STACK: at which point printing stops and the printers start saying TIMEOUT. Sometimes I can reprint missing pages, but sometimes I can not print the document at all, no matter what I do. We are using lprng Has anyone heard of this problem? Please let me know. Thanks, Kevin Bramblett
Kevin Bramblett wrote on samba-digest:> Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:22:27 -0500 > From: Kevin Bramblett <kbramblett@dssresearch.com> > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Major Printing Failure Problem > > Hi everyone, > > I am using Samba 2.2.3a on a Redhat Linux 7.2 Intel server as a > printserver on a W2K PDC network. I have a Xerox 440 printer, an HP > 4500 PS and an HP 4550 PS printer using my Samba printserver. > > I am often receiving the following error message: > > ERROR: syntaxerror > OFFENDING COMMAND: > > STACK:This looks like the Win client has used a "PostScript Level 3" setting in their driver, while the HP printers might only understand Level 2. Also, try to set it to "Optimized for Portability" instead of "Optimized for Speed".> at which point printing stops and the printers start saying TIMEOUT. > Sometimes I can reprint missing pages,Do you print from the same client in these cases with the same driver settings?> but sometimes I can not print the > document at all, no matter what I do. We are using lprng > > Has anyone heard of this problem?Yes, this can be reprodused at will in a pure Windows environment too, with the wrong settings in the driver and a document utilizing heavily Level 3 PostScript stuff... No fault of Unix nor LPRng nor Samba here.... :-)> Please let me know. > > Thanks, > Kevin Bramblett
This happens a lot when using Adobe Acrobat. I got another error today that says: ERROR: undefined OFFENDING COMMAND: execform STACK: -dictionary- -savelevel- -savelevel- -savelevel- -savelevel- This is on the Xerox 440. If this is a postscript error, where do I go make the changes? I have looked on the client machines at their drivers and found nothing you indicated. I don't see anything about this in the printconf. Any help is very much appreciated! Thanks, Kevin Bramblett Message: 6 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:28:14 +0200 From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle@danka.de> Reply-To: kpfeifle@danka.de Organization: Danka Deutschland GmbH To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Major Printing Failure Problem Kevin Bramblett wrote on samba-digest:> Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:22:27 -0500 > From: Kevin Bramblett <kbramblett@dssresearch.com> > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Major Printing Failure Problem > > Hi everyone, > > I am using Samba 2.2.3a on a Redhat Linux 7.2 Intel server as a > printserver on a W2K PDC network. I have a Xerox 440 printer, an HP > 4500 PS and an HP 4550 PS printer using my Samba printserver. > > I am often receiving the following error message: > > ERROR: syntaxerror > OFFENDING COMMAND: > > STACK:This looks like the Win client has used a "PostScript Level 3" setting in their driver, while the HP printers might only understand Level 2. Also, try to set it to "Optimized for Portability" instead of "Optimized for Speed".> at which point printing stops and the printers start saying TIMEOUT. > Sometimes I can reprint missing pages,Do you print from the same client in these cases with the same driver settings?> but sometimes I can not print the > document at all, no matter what I do. We are using lprng > > Has anyone heard of this problem?Yes, this can be reprodused at will in a pure Windows environment too, with the wrong settings in the driver and a document utilizing heavily Level 3 PostScript stuff... No fault of Unix nor LPRng nor Samba here.... :-)> Please let me know. > > Thanks, > Kevin Bramblett
Kevin Bramblett wrote on "samba-digest": > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:32:43 -0500 > From: Kevin Bramblett <kbramblett@dssresearch.com> > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] RE: Major Printing Failure Problem > > This happens a lot when using Adobe Acrobat. I got another error today > that says: > > ERROR: undefined > OFFENDING COMMAND: execform > > STACK: > > -dictionary- > -savelevel- > -savelevel- > -savelevel- > -savelevel- > > This is on the Xerox 440. If this is a postscript error, It *is* a PostScript error. > where do I go > make the changes? Open the "Printers" folder on the client machine. Select printer. Righ-click, select "Properties". Look for the Item "PostScript options". Here you'll (possibly) find the "PostScript Language Level" selection and (surely) the "PostSript Output Option" selection. On the latter, de-select "Optimized for Speed" The exact place to find it might differ between NT, W2K and XP Adobe PS driver variants.... (My description is from memory; my MS Win system is German; the phrases above are my own translations....) > I have looked on the client machines at their drivers > and found nothing you indicated. I don't see anything about this in the > printconf. > > Any help is very much appreciated! > > Thanks, > Kevin Bramblett