help with a samba printer

help with a samba printer

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi,
I'm still fighting with this problem, hoping to find a solution. We have a 
management program which runs on a Linux server. Each workstation (windows 
pcs) connects to the Linux server and work with the management software. Each 
pc can print result from the software on a local printer shared with samba, 
thus each pc shares the printer and the linux servers has all printers loaded 
as smb printers. Since the software runs in the server itself, prints are 
produced from the server and delivered via samba. Is there a way to leave a 
printing document in the queue untill it is printed? I mean, if the windows 
printer is switched off, can the server (lpd or cups) retry untill the 
printer is turned on?

Thanks,
Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@virgilio.it

Re: help with a samba printer

[Adam Lang]

how are people "using the application" on the linux server?  Telnetting into
the server?

Also, lpd or cups should automatically retry to print a document if it can't
connect to the printer initially.  That is relevant to the printing
subsystem.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luca Ferrari" <fluca1978@virgilio.it>
To: <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:00 AM
Subject: help with a samba printer


> Hi,
> I'm still fighting with this problem, hoping to find a solution. We have a
> management program which runs on a Linux server. Each workstation (windows
> pcs) connects to the Linux server and work with the management software.
Each
> pc can print result from the software on a local printer shared with
samba,
> thus each pc shares the printer and the linux servers has all printers
loaded
> as smb printers. Since the software runs in the server itself, prints are
> produced from the server and delivered via samba. Is there a way to leave
a
> printing document in the queue untill it is printed? I mean, if the
windows
> printer is switched off, can the server (lpd or cups) retry untill the
> printer is turned on?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
> -- 
> Luca Ferrari,
> fluca1978@virgilio.it
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Re: help with a samba printer

[Luca Ferrari]

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 15:03 Adam Lang's cat walking on the keyboard  wrote:

> how are people "using the application" on the linux server?  Telnetting
> into the server?
>

Yes, there are using telnet (sometimes ssh).


> Also, lpd or cups should automatically retry to print a document if it
> can't connect to the printer initially.  That is relevant to the printing
> subsystem.

Do you know how to configure lpr to retry?

Thanks,
Luca

-- 
Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@virgilio.it

Re: help with a samba printer

[Glynn Clements]

Luca Ferrari wrote:

> > Also, lpd or cups should automatically retry to print a document if it
> > can't connect to the printer initially.  That is relevant to the printing
> > subsystem.
> 
> Do you know how to configure lpr to retry?

It would be more accurate to say that lpr simply waits until the
printer is available.

It sounds as if the printer server (i.e. the Windows box which has the
printer attached) may be "eating" the document, i.e. accepting it but
failing to print it. If that is the case, there isn't anything that
you can do on the Linux box to solve the problem.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>