Re: Printing

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Date:         Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:57:27 +1100
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

H Darryl,

I actually think that what it is doing is fair enough. The windows print
server is hung and is not able to accept jobs from anywhere. So AIX marks
the queue as being down because it can't deliver the job - if this was a
physical printer this would be a good hint that you had something to fix
(or to refill the paper tray *grin*).

We used to have the same issue as you so and it was mostly caused by
people playing with or "servicing" the print server (who of course assume
that it won't affect anyone else - so why tell them ?). We now bypass the
print server and talk directly to the printers. By cutting out that
intermediate layer we now have very very few issues.

If this is causing issues for you, probably the easiest way around it is
to write a crontab script to periodically check if any of the queues are
down and if so - bring them back up.

Bruce Whittaker,
CASS Support,

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Darryl Ousterhout <D.Ousterhout@LABSAFETY.COM>
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18/03/2004 06:58
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I have several AIX systems (AIX 5.1 ML03, latest print subsystem file
sets) that print through a Windows 2003 print server. Every once in a
while a print queue will hang causing the queues on all my other AIX
systems to go down when any print job is sent to them. Of course we
reboot the print server and all is fine. Has anyone run into this? I
would be hesitant to think that a print request from AIX would stop the
communications on all my other systems to the print server also. Yes, all
the Windows machines in the company can still print. If I call IBM, it's a
 Windows problem. If the Windows guys call Microsoft, it's obviously a
unix problem.

Thanks in advance,
-Darryl

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