printing through samba with Windows
Hi there!
I'm having a rather difficult problem with printing through samba from
Windows machines. What happens is there are a bunch of big Word documents
(with pictures in there from digital cameras) that need to be printed out in
batches. Normally a user can pick a bunch from explorer and right-click on
them and print them. Problem is, when I do that to the color printer
through the linux server, I start getting bunches of errors from the windows
machine about it taking too long and needing to cancel the jobs because the
printer's not responding, etc, etc, etc. (usually I can still get all the
prints after responding to all the timeout messages and such) Now, I can
print these things to file and copy it to the linux box and send them out
through lpr and it spools them all up and sends 'em on out. So, I'm
thinking there must be something to do with the samba config. Has anyone
ever heard of this problem before? Is there a simple config parameter I
need to change and that will take care of it? It seems to me that the
samba server ought to spool these jobs up to print and let the workstation
go on it's merry way doing something else, but that doesn't seem to be
happening. I have never noticed this problem before when printing through our
old Netware server.
I've tried multiple linux boxes - one running slink and one running potato,
so different iterations of software versions. Running samba and lprng for
the printing. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
-Ken
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