[cups.general] Managing a SMB queue through CUPS

[Michael R Sweet]

John Hodrien wrote:
> I've got a CUPS queue forwarding on to a windows print queue using smbspool.
> Currently the behaviour is that a print job queues in the CUPS queue, then is
> accepted by the SMB queue, and then disappears from view until it pops out of
> the printer.

Unfortunately, no.  Like LPD, Windows remote printing does not
return a job ID to the client so there is no reliable way to know
when a job is completed or what job to cancel.

Maybe the Samba folks can come up with a creative solution for this
problem - that's where I'd go next for assistance...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer