samba - Aug 2005 - CUPS: Report errors and problems back to Windows clients

Hi there,

my CUPS server runs fine, I can print from within Windows and Linux.
However, if I stop the printer in CUPS or some other error occurs,
Windows clients never get notified, neither via IPP nor via SMB
printing. Windows always sends out the print job, the user thinks the
job has been print, although some problem might have happened on the
CUPS server.

Is it possible to report errors and problems back to Windows clients?
Like having Windows giving out a printer error when the CUPS server
can't print? Must be something like "don't spool and forget about
the
job, but instead wait from CUPS reply".

Is something like that possible?

Thanks
Florian

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Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> my CUPS server runs fine, I can print from within Windows and Linux.
> However, if I stop the printer in CUPS or some other error occurs,
> Windows clients never get notified, neither via IPP nor via SMB
> printing. Windows always sends out the print job, the user thinks the
> job has been print, although some problem might have happened on the
> CUPS server.
> 
> Is it possible to report errors and problems back to 
> Windows clients?  Like having Windows giving out
> a printer error when the CUPS server can't print? Must
> be something like "don't spool and forget about the job,
> but instead wait from CUPS reply".
The original printing backend was written for interaction with
lpd systems.  The cups backend was tacked on.  So the interface
is not as rich as it should be.  What you are asking about is
kind of known issue at this time.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2685




cheers, jerry
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