Remote host did not respond with command status byte after 300seconds!

Gavin Fietze gavinf at itdynamics.co.za
Sat Oct 28 02:40:56 PDT 2006


Hi Michael,

I have already tried ?timeout=1800 which should be more than enough time to complete the print job. The first print job completes in under 4 minutes, yet I still get this error in the logs. When I increased the timeout to 1800 it made no difference.


> Gavin Fietze wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am having exactly the same problem. Is there any help someone can offer us? Even if it's a nudge in the right direction.
>
> This error means that the print server does not implement the LPD
> protocol correctly.  If it is just caused by a delayed status response
> (first file takes longer than 5 minutes to print), you can add
> "?timeout=3600" to give the print server more time to complete.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com





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