[TriLUG] Samba printing problems

[David McDowell]

For some reason, they made the reboot not clear queues... you'll have
files here:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS

If you were to pause a printer, submit a print job and view this
location, you'll see them.  So if you had jobs in the queue, they'll
always be there until you delete all the jobs out of that print queue,
a reboot doesn't do it... apparently designed to be that way.

Also, if you have trouble printing for some reason (I guess
specifically within your windows machine itself), pausing, capturing
the file created and passing on to tech support is sometimes
requested.  They'll take that file, put it in their print queue, and
let it go and see how it prints on their end.  Windows rulz!!  *sigh* 
:(

David McD


On 4/27/05, Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net> wrote:
> Another potential thing would be to stop the print spooler service, "net
> stop spooler" unless they changed it in XP, then delete the printer,
> should be pretty destructive.
> 
> 
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > Well I think that I figured it out.
> >
> > While I was playing around, I tried to do something to the printer (I
> > think that it was disconnect but I'm not sure now) and it said that it
> > couldn't do whatever it was if there were jobs queued.
> >
> > So I opened up the print queue, but there were no jobs queued,  I
> > brought up a context menu anyway, and it had something like "delete
> > all jobs", so I selected it.
> >
> > As soon as I did that the printer went away, I guess the delete was
> > waiting for the empty queue to be emptied.
> >
> > Doncha just love windoze?
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