[cups.general] Printing to a Windows Server fails

[Michael Sweet]

William,

Enable debug logging (cupsctl --debug-logging), try printing, and then look at the messages coming from the backend.  My guess is that Windows' (very) limited IPP/1.0 support is to blame...


On Mar 12, 2012, at 12:20 PM, William Moore wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to send print jobs from CUPS to a print server on Windows Server 2003 via http. This used to work with version 1.4.3 of CUPS, although I had to set the Error Policy for the printers to abort-job, otherwise the jobs never finished.
> 
> Now I have had to upgrade to version 1.5.2 of CUPS and the abort-job policy no longer works. All the printer jobs hang on "Waiting for job to complete". I tried setting a Timeout value of 30 in cupsd.conf, but that didn't make any difference.
> 
> Is there something else I can to set to make this work again, or do I have to install an old version of CUPS? Installing an old version of CUPS is my least preferred option.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> William
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair