Why Are Some Users' Jobs Always Held Pending?

Brian White bcwhite at precidia.com
Mon Jun 19 10:13:05 PDT 2006


Does anyone have any ideas about this?  I've been unable to locate 
anything about these three machines that differs from the rest of the 
hosts here.

Thanks!

-- Brian


Brian White wrote:
> Version: 1.1.23-10sarge1
> 
> I have cups installed and can print to it via Linux just fine.  I also 
> have installed via Samba (via "cupsaddsmb") and most WinXP users can 
> print just fine, too.
> 
> However, a few (3 of about 20) users have the odd problem that every one 
> of their print jobs gets put in the queue and held.  I have to manually 
> go in to the web interface and click "release job" for every one of 
> them.  The other 17 or so users have their jobs go straight through. All 
> WinXP machines are on the same subnet on the same domain with identical 
> (automated, unattended) installations.  The cups logs show that the jobs 
> are being held but do not state any reason why.
> 
> What would cause the jobs of a few users to be held while others print 
> immediately?
> 
> Can I increase the log verbosity to tell why jobs are held?
> 
>                                           Brian
>                                  ( bcwhite at precidia.com )
> 
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> 
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