[Gloucs] SAMBA printing funnies (but I'm not laughing)

[Glyn Davies]

Andrew Oakley wrote:
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>> truth it appears that maybe 1 in 5 prints make it through or 
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>> No CUPS involved. As far as I can tell, its SAMBA talking to 
>> lpd via /etc/printcap. Sorry to be a bit vague here but the 
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>> I've found diddly squat in /var/log and /var/log/samba. I 
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Right. Firstly, my apologies for returning late to this thread.
> Hmm. My first thought is that we need the log of printer messages. Do
> you have a /var/log/lpr.log or similar? Can you find where lpd is
> logging to?
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Hmmm. After reading your post I dug around for a few evenings and I 
learnt a bit about lpd. It logs to /var/spool/lpd/printername/log. 
Generally a load of crud in there. Discovered you can log almost 
anything by setting it with lpc but it makes configuring sendmail look 
like a walk in the park (IMHO).
> If not, I'd suggest installing cups simply so that you have more control
> over the logging. You can change the loglevel in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> and by default it logs to a number of files under /var/log/cups/ .
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Well, that's the way I'm going. Andy C suggested a second server running 
a more up to date OS (debian or course), SAMBA and CUPS to act a print 
server. I'm partly through building that and will report back.