[KLUG Members] I'm being bad and asking first

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Tue Nov 15 12:27:17 EST 2005


> Before investigating this I want to ask it because I'm guessing someone
> on the list has already solved it.  I have a samba server that also
> serves up 10 different printers.  I'm getting a complaint from users
> that when they print a job and it successfully prints, the job does not
> leave the list of "jobs in the queue" and the little printer icon stays
> in their taskbar.

Yep.  This was a long standing bug in the Samba 3.0.x series.  It is fixed in
recent releases.  Over aggressive caching.

> A restart of the smb service will clear the list, but sooner or later,
> the list just keeps growing again and I need to restart smb again to get
> rid of the list.  Is there a better fix.  I'm not sure whether to
> research cups or samba for this issue.

Upgrade Samba.



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