I am running Samba 3.5.8 on Ubuntu 11.04 with lpr for printing. For reasons unknown, about 1-4 times a month at seemingly random times, a printer will stop working. If I try to send a test page, windows reports that there was a problem sending the test page. To fix it I edit /etc/printcap and comment out the offending printer, save printcap, wait about 30 seconds and then uncomment the printer and save printcap. That's it. Then the printer starts working again. Does anyone have any ideas on what would cause this? [global] workgroup = ENDOR map to guest = Bad User passwd chat syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 smb ports = 139 add user script = useradd -s /bin/false %u add user to group script = /usr/sbin/adduser %u %g add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -N -g machines -c Machine -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u logon script = logon.bat logon path logon drive = G: logon home = \\%L\%U domain logons = Yes preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No usershare allow guests = Yes panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d printing = bsd print command = lpr -r -P'%p' %s lpq command lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 printable = Yes browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers [VOL1] path = /usr/vol1 read only = No inherit permissions = Yes oplocks = No vfs objects = recycle recycle:directory_mode = 700 recycle:exclude = *.tmp,*.temp recycle:keeptree = yes recycle:repository = .recycle/%U recycle:touch = yes recycle:versions = yes [netlogon] path = /usr/vol1/netlogon browseable = No [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No create mask = 0740 browseable = No