From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adam T. Bowen" Subject: Re: cups timeout problem (was Re: ncurses and ls problem - I thought they're colors but it's not!) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:59:19 +0100 Message-ID: <45190807.3040508@agitate.org.uk> References: <200609191929.44386.fluca1978@infinito.it> <200609211626.09697.fluca1978@infinito.it> <200609261145.26860.fluca1978@infinito.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200609261145.26860.fluca1978@infinito.it> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Luca Ferrari Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Luca Ferrari wrote: > Hi, > I'm still fighting with the problem of the connection, but I'm experiencing > also another problem: if I try to print via smb/cups to a windows printer I > get cups in timeout (the server didn't respond in 10000 msec). The strange > thing is that I cannot connect to the printer via smbclient! > Now, If I create the printer via lpadmin the printer seems enabled, after the > first print the printer goes disabled and I cannot enable it back. > Any suggestion? Total shot in the dark, but what is your locale set to? We had a number of wide ranging problems, including printing and console applications, when we installed a new version of Linux on our desktop systems, a few years ago, which was caused by a change in the default locale (I think to a Unicode one!). Worth a look. Cheers Adam