Re: Timeout problem printing pdf files from Windows via Smaba

[John Matthews <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Apologies for apparently mis-leading you and wasting your time. It was
never my intention. Just because I post to a mailing list for help, does
not stop me continuing to investigate the problem that I am having. I will
re-cap so that everything is clear:

1. The original problem was when printing a pdf from a windows machine via
samba to an HP Laserjet 1100 connected via the parallel port. The print
driver on the windows machine was the HP 1100 as supplied by Windows XP.
This was set to print to the print queue on the Linux machine that
apsfilter was operating on.

2. Thanks to your advice I managed to produce the debug output for
apsfilter. I don't know how to emulate sending the data from the windows
machine via samba so used the Linux command line (as instructed by
yourself). From the output and a little web research, I determined that
the acrobat reader installation was causing a broken pipe error. Now
pdftops does the ps conversion and the apsfilter debug seems to be free
from errors.

3. I don't know how things work when printing via samba from the windows
machine to the printer on the Linux machine. However in the configuration
mentioned in (1) above, everything works apart from pdf files which
timeout. Reading further elsewhere made me suspect that:
(i) The windows machine should be made to print using a ps driver if
printing via the apsfilter or
(ii) The windows machine should be made to print using the
HP1100 windows driver if printing via a raw queue (ie: no apsfilter on the
queue).

(what I have been doing is printing to an apsfilter enabled queue while
using the Windows RAW print driver - I suspect that this is bad...  but
please correct me if apsfilter should cope with this).

When testing from the Linux command line, I was verifying that apsfilter
was not at fault (and I succeeded in this verification).

I have been away from the machine for a few days and need to test
configuration (i) listed above. I suspect that pdf files will print OK now
that I have a better understanding of how to configure my system. I will
confirm tomorrow.

Many thanks and apologies for the confusion,

Regards,

John.