How to administer windows print queues for shared printers

[Martin Cabrera]

Hello,

We migrated many print queues from Novell Non-NDP print services to CUPS. 
Shared local printers (connected directly to Windows clients) has been 
configured as LPD or SMB printers in CUPS.

With Novell users had a DOS utility (pconsole.exe) to query the print 
queues. With cups users can do something similar via web connecting to 631 
port (ipp service). The problem is, when a job has been sent to a shared 
local printer, it disappears to immediately from CUPS queue because the job 
is taken by the Windows queue even if the printer is offline. With Novell 
this do not happen, because the users can see the works all the time, the 
jobs are removed from the queue only when they are printed.

Please, give any suggestion to let the users to query the job queues in the 
same way novell lets them do.

Thanks in advanced

Martin.