[cups.general] Managing a SMB queue through CUPS

[Michael R Sweet]

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael R Sweet wrote:
> 
>> 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...
> 
> And smbclient //server/printer -c queue doesn't return anything useful either.
> I assume that's simply known to be broken?

Right.  They might be willing to migrate away from the file-based
share printing (Win9x+) to SPOOLSS RPC calls (WinNT+) in future
Samba releases - just depends on how much they want to support Win9x
printing at this point...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer