Windows Clients keep finished jobs in Queue

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Wed Sep 15 03:38:43 PDT 2004


Steve Chovanec wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > my cups with samba and windows active directory works fine except one problem:
> >
> > windows clients keep finished jobs from every user on a printer(so every user can see every users printed jobs). after printing every user can delete his own jobs manually but i want the jobs automatically be deleted in the windows printer queue.
> >
> > is it because of some missing rights???
> >
> > thankful for every idea.
> >
> > cheers claus
>
> Does anybody have any ideas on this? I am having the same problem when printing from a windows client either through samba or directly to cups through IPP. The queue in windows will show the job as printing forever, even though the job is finished and no longer in the CUPS queue. I even set cups to not save any job history and it had no effect.
>
> - Steve


cheers steve,

at least it makes me feel better not to be the only one having this problem :-).
i figured out that the only user who can delete jobs is the owner....but the jobs should disappear out of the queue after beeing printed out........thankful for any idea

claus




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