On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:01, Cy Ball wrote: > I have set up a printer on a windows machine as a shared printer. > Samba is set up on my RH8.0 machine. I can see the shares properly on > both machines. > > When I use the test on the printer configuration program, it says it > sent the test page to the printer. > > Nothing happens. When I use lpq to look at the queue, I find: > > Printer: hp5l@localhost > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Server: no server active > Status: keeping error job 'root@localhost+375' at 10:58:47.454 > Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size > Time > error root@localhost+222 A 222 ERROR: job removal requested > > > How can I find out what is going on? I have searched web for clues, but > find nothing useful. > > Help please! > The problem was solved when I went to my Windows ME computer and un-shared the printer and then shared it again. Why? Only Microsoft knows. -- Cy Ball cyril.ball@attbi.com "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
