Re: errors when printing with samba
Hello:
What I find amazing about M$95/98 is that if you turn off
the screen saver, many problems disappear.
Peter
hubert.fauque@wanadoo.fr wrote:
> I have already sent this message to the list but I don't know
> if it has arrived because of problems with my subscription
> address, so I resend it:
>
> I have a debian machine with an epson 900 printer;
> I use samba to print from another machine with windows98;
>
> here is the problem: when printing a large job (e.g. an A4 photo
> at 1440dpi) I get an error somewhere in the middle: a file
> begins to arrive in /tmp and at a random time the transfers stops:
> on windows I have a message indicating an error in printing
> (printer not reachable); there is nothing in the samba logfile.
> It doesn't happen always at the same place; sometimes when the
> file is not too big it succeeds;
>
> If I setup the windows driver to print to a file instead of the
> remote printer, and I transfer the file with smbclient and then
> lpr it, all goes well.
>
> the printer part of my samba.conf is:
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /tmp
> create mask = 0700
> print ok = Yes
> browseable = No
>
> I use potato with samba2.04;
>
> thanks for any help on the cause of this problem;
>
> Hubert
> hubert.fauque@inria.fr
>
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