From 42efc1092dcb3042724e280c0bb18e813b3aac98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jelmer Vernooij Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:36:40 +0000 Subject: Convert GOTCHAS to SGML (This used to be commit c48207ef0e219680d4e4102256c76189aaf73ebc) --- docs/htmldocs/printingdebug.html | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/htmldocs/printingdebug.html') diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/printingdebug.html b/docs/htmldocs/printingdebug.html index 6b11f83727..acc81fdc00 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/printingdebug.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/printingdebug.html @@ -5,11 +5,10 @@ >Debugging Printing Problems

Chapter 8. Debugging Printing Problems

Chapter 8. Debugging Printing Problems

8.1. Introduction

8.1. Introduction

This is a short description of how to debug printing problems with Samba. This describes how to debug problems with printing from a SMB @@ -149,7 +152,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1" >

8.2. Debugging printer problems

8.2. Debugging printer problems

One way to debug printing problems is to start by replacing these command with shell scripts that record the arguments and the contents @@ -204,7 +209,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1" >

8.3. What printers do I have?

8.3. What printers do I have?

You can use the 'testprns' program to check to see if the printer name you are using is recognized by Samba. For example, you can @@ -231,7 +238,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1" >

8.4. Setting up printcap and print servers

8.4. Setting up printcap and print servers

You may need to set up some printcaps for your Samba system to use. It is strongly recommended that you use the facilities provided by @@ -313,7 +322,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1" >

8.5. Job sent, no output

8.5. Job sent, no output

This is the most frustrating part of printing. You may have sent the job, verified that the job was forwarded, set up a wrapper around @@ -356,7 +367,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1" >

8.6. Job sent, strange output

8.6. Job sent, strange output

Once you have the job printing, you can then start worrying about making it print nicely.

8.7. Raw PostScript printed

8.7. Raw PostScript printed

This is a problem that is usually caused by either the print spooling system putting information at the start of the print job that makes @@ -413,7 +428,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1" >

8.8. Advanced Printing

8.8. Advanced Printing

Note that you can do some pretty magic things by using your imagination with the "print command" option and some shell scripts. @@ -427,7 +444,9 @@ CLASS="SECT1" >

8.9. Real debugging

8.9. Real debugging

If the above debug tips don't help, then maybe you need to bring in the bug guns, system tracing. See Tracing.txt in this directory.

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