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I have setup a dedicated print server running on RH 8 with Samba 2.2.5-10 and LPRng-3.8.9-6 to service a HP9000 printer. The print queue for this HP9000 gets it print jobs from a Windows server via a script and the queue is set to HOLDALL status. The HOLDALL status is necessary because the script runs overnight to produce the print jobs which can total anywhere from 500 to 12,000 individual print jobs. My problem is that samba defaults to accepting up to 1000 print jobs then starts discarding print jobs. I have edited smb.conf an...

...jobs = 1000 printable = No postscript = No printing = lprng print command = lpr -U%U@%M -P%p %s -V lpq command = lpq -U%U@%M -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j -U%U@%M -V lppause command = lpc -U%U@%M hold %p %j lpresume command = lpc -U%U@%M release %p %j queuepause command = lpc -U%U@%M holdall %p* queueresume command = lpc -U%U@%M noholdall %p* printer name = use client driver = No default devmode = No printer driver = printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def printer driver location = default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Y...