 | | | Samba phantom entries on print queues | Samba phantom entries on print queues 2005-01-25 - By Josh Kelley
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Tim Edwards wrote:
> We are using Samba to share out printers configured using Cups on a
> RHEL 3 Update 4 server with both Samba and Cups running on the same
> server. We have a problem where after some time (sometimes a couple of
> days, sometimes only a few hours) the print jobs in the queue appear
> to just keep building up. Eventually there can be hundreds of jobs
> appearing in there when looked at from a Windows box, many from hours
> before, and no new jobs will print. The funny thing is that when this
> happens CUPS (via the lpq command on the RHEL 3 server) reports that
> there are no jobs in the print queues.
> It looks like Samba's print queue somehow loses sync with the actual
> print queue maintained by Cups and Samba just ends up never deleting
> jobs from its print queue - even after Cups has successfully printed
> them. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
I've been seeing this problem for a while on our Samba print servers.
(I haven't seen it stop new jobs from printing, but it sounds like our
printers get less use than yours, so maybe we just never hit whatever
limit you're hitting.)
Here are a couple of threads on the linux.samba newsgroup that discuss
the problem:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_frm/thread
/b62f0b3294f55951
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_frm/thread
/b72f8cab5bbbcd8d
The messages indicate that Samba 3.0.11 should fix these bugs, but I
haven't tried that.
Josh Kelley
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