Cutting the printjob name

Franz Pförtsch franz.pfoertsch at brose.net
Tue Jul 5 02:03:34 PDT 2005


Michael Sweet wrote:

> Franz Pförtsch wrote:
>> ...
>> Do I have any chance to change this behavior?
> 
> No, not without changing the SAMBA code.
> 
>> Do the samba-guys knows about it?
> 
> You'll have to ask them.  IMHO, this is not a bug since the
> string value does not exceed the IPP limits (32767 chars)
> 
>> My printer a canon ir3100 stops printing!
> 
> What driver are you using?
> 
> What is the device URI?
> 
Hi Michael,

I asked the samba guys and got the following answer:
>> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>> 
>>>It's by design currently.  The internal printing API
>>>needs to be updated to allow more information to be
>>>passed back from the underlying printing system
>>>such as job id (or something similar).
>>>
>> And now who has to solve that jobs?
>> 
>> The people from cups or from samba.
>> I know with samba 2.2 the printjobnames was without the leading
>> smbprn.00000004

>Yeah.  And Samba 2.2. was actually broken when mapping cups
>jobs to CIFS joib ids as a result of this.  I'll accept any
>patches that fix this issue but don't break other functionality.
>I just don't have time at the moment to work on it myself.

And now what can we do with this information?

regards
Franz




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