Cups on fc3 to network printers stops after jame

[Helge Blischke]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Ok so I have now found out lots of people have had this and the new version
> soon should have options to retry on some errors
> from looking through this newsgroup.
> 
> As our fc3 box has this problem and has cups version:
> cups 1.1.22-0.rc1.8 System Environment/Daemons Common Unix Printing System
>  cups-libs 1.1.22-0.rc1.8 System Environment/Libraries Common Unix Printing
> System - libraries
>  hal-cups-utils 0.5.2-8 Applications/System
> 
> And a old rh9 box which works has
>  cups 1.1.17-13 System Environment/Daemons Common Unix Printing System
>  cups-libs 1.1.17-13 System Environment/Libraries
> 
> Would uninstalling the above on the fc3 box and then installing 1.1.17 onto
> it cure this problem?
> 
> Has anyone else tried this.
> 
> Nick
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have 2 fc3 file servers with cups and samba installed.
> > All our Printers are on network intel 10/100 print servers.
> >
> > Printer Setup done via webmin - hardware - printers.
> > print servers on ip ie 192.168.10.100 Port 9100 for lpt1
> > 9101 for lpt2 etc..
> >
> > The printing works most of the time untill we get a paper jam.
> > Once jam cleared the printer does not print.
> > Looking at Webmin-hardware-printer shows Enabled=FALSE
> > and you have to select Enabled=True and click ok to enable the
> > printer again.
> >
> > Can anyone say why this happens as when the fileservers were Redhat 9
> > os we did not have this problem.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >

If you dare to downgrade to an older version, I'd suggest to use at least
1.1.19, which has shown to be fairly stable (and we still use it, waiting for a
stable 1.2).

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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