This one time, at band camp, Elizabeth Barham said: > 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. Good. Server side then. > > 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 This is your clue here - firewall says the printer is off-line 22 seconds after leonardo connects to liliwhite. Print something from leonardo, and then print something from lilwhite - see what the difference in the logs looks like. When the printer is off-line, try the usual things to hunt it down - lsmod, etc. > 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? Sounds likely. > 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. We'll see . . . > Elizabeth HTH, Steve -- Detroit is Cleveland without the glitter.
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