holding jobs

[rizwan]

I just tried the first option of adding job-hold-until=indefinite into /etc/cups/lpoptions....unfortunately it does not work... :(....

BTW I'm using Fedora Core 4 with cups version 1.1.23-15 and my windowz XP boxes can send print jobs via IPP to the cups print server.

If anyone can figure out this one out, it would be much appreciated......back to some more happy hacking.

Cheers

RIZ :)


> p.mdriyaz at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > But then some computers here run windows, and they are configured to
> > access cups server. as no lpoptions exist .. how to get the jobs from the
> > windows clients into the queue?
>
> Unfortunately you dont tell us *how* your Win clients are accessing
> the CUPS server.
>
> * is it the MS IPP print client sending IPP print requests to cupsd?
> * is it via the MS (or other) LPR/LPD print client sending jobs to the
>   "cups-lpd" mini LPR/LPD server?
> * is it by using the CUPS IPP client for WinNT/2K/XP?
> * is it via Samba?
>
> ## -1- ##
> ---------
> In case it is the first, I think you should try to put the "job-hold-until=
> indefinite" into the "/etc/cups/lpoptions" file of the CUPS server. But
> I dont know if this will work.
>
> ## -2- ##
> ---------
> If it is the second: put the line (all in one line, the "\" leave out)
>
>   printer stream tcp nowait lp /path/to/cups/daemon/cups-lpd cups-lpd  \
>           cups-lpd -o document-format=application/octet-stream         \
>                    -o job-hold-until=indefinite
>
> into your "/etc/inetd.conf". Should your system use "xinetd" then put
> this block in "xinetd.conf":
>
>   service printer
>     {
>        socket_type = stream
>        protocol = tcp
>        wait = no
>        user = lp
>        group = sys
>        passenv =
>        server = /path/to/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
>        server_args = -o document-format=application/octet-stream -o job-hold-until=indefinite
>     }
>
>
> ## -3- ##
> ---------
> If you use the CUPS-IPP Client, you can specify the "job-hold-until" with
> the latest driver (included), according to this website:
>
>   http://www.cups.org/windows.php
>
> (I didnt have time yet to test it.)
>
>
> ## -4- ##
> ---------
> If you run Samba, there is a new feature now included in Samba-3.0.6
> or later. You can now specify (on a per-printer share level, or in
> the general [printers] section of smb.conf job options for CUPS
> printing. Something like this line
>
>   cups options = job-hold-until=indefinite
>
> should do what you require. (But I havent tested this either very
> thoroughly yet.)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt
>