[cups.general] Holding jobs indefinitely.

ronaress at esalq.usp.br ronaress at esalq.usp.br
Wed Aug 4 10:10:51 PDT 2004


Helge Blischke wrote:
> ronaress at esalq.usp.br wrote:
> >
> > Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> >
> > > CUPS supports all basic and many extended IPP job attributes
> > > (see RFCs for a list of the whole lot, or Mike Sweet's book on
> > > CUPS). "job-hold-until=indefinite" is such an IPP job attribute.
> > >
> > > Use it like this:
> > >
> > >   lp -d printername -o job-hold-until=indefinite /path/to/printfile
> > >
> > > on the command line.
> > >
> > > I am not sure if you want to force this behaviour on your users, or
> > > if a strongly defined default would help you, or if you want to rely
> > > on the users to do it.
> > >
> > > In kprinter (KDE's GUI print command), click on "Expand" button (lower
> > > left), select "Advanced Options" tab, choose "Schedule printing: 'never
> > > (hold indefinitely)'" to make KDE send the "job-hold-until=indefinite"
> > > parameter.
> > >
> > > To get the options as default, make sure they are in the
> > > "$HOME/.lpoptions" and "/etc/cups/lpoptions" files. (These files may
> > > not exist, but are created if the user, resp. root runs the "lpoptions"
> > > command....
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Kurt
> > >
> > >
> >
> >   Dear, printing with CUPS + Samba, where I place the option (-o job-hold-until=indefinite), since the line "print command" in the samba is ignored when we use CUPS.
> >
> >   Some idea? Please, help-me.
> >
>
> I recently read that Samba 3.0.x with  some x > 2 permits specifying
> options like this.
>
> Helge
>
>
> --
> H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
> H.Blischke at srz-berlin.com
> H.Blischke at acm.org

  But I use Samba 2.2.3a-13, will be that it does not have a solution ?

  Tankyou

  Rogério






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