Re: Samba causes printer to freeze after long period of inactivity
Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> writes:
>
> It sounds like a SAMBA problem, but whether it's on the server or
> client side is unclear as yet. When printing fails from the Win
> box, can you see the printer in the Network Neighborhood?
Yes. It looks good.
> Do you get any interesting clues in your SAMBA/lpd logs?
conrad: dumb X terminal
firewall: samba print server
leonardo: win98 machine
liliwhite: samba file server
Nov 5 18:54:26 liliwhite smbd[30099]: connect from leonardo.renaissance.oasis
Nov 5 18:54:48 firewall.renaissance.oasis kernel: lp0 off-line
Nov 5 19:01:11 conrad.renaissance.oasis -- MARK --
Nov 5 19:01:58 liliwhite smbd[30103]: connect from leonardo.renaissance.oasis
firewall is an older machine and the parallel port driver is kept as a
module. It's hdd is set to spin down after one minute of inactivity
and most of the time it just sits there.
When, however, the "Print" dialog comes up in Win98, there is activity
on "firewall" (samba print server) such that the drive starts to spin
again, which perhaps is Windows checking out the network? or perhaps
modprobe installing the parrallel port drivers?
I do wonder why the printer seems to jam, though. After I pull the
plug and plug it back in, it often times will print a very-messed up
page (like the letters are huge). Perhaps there is some early sequence
that confuses the printer. It may be a Win98 thing for all I know as
it just printed something from ghostscript via lpd just fine after 16
or so hours of inactivity.
Elizabeth
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