UNIX Printing Thru Windows: Occasionally gets " waiting for queue to be enabled"

[Alzhy]

We use the LPD/TCP Printing Service on Windows to get to the Windows defined Queue from UNIX. Lately, even if the Windows side is okay (Queue is up, lpd/tcp print service is up).. lpstat on UNIX would always complain about " waiting for queue to be enabled.."

root@janus # lpstat -oprt00001
prt00001-5185 root priority 0 Jun 8 13:24 on prt00001
(standard input) 496113 bytes

printer queue for prt00001

Windows 2000 LPD Server
Printer \\xxx.yyy.nnn.xx\prt00001

Owner Status Jobname Job-Id Size Pages Priority
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

janus: waiting for queue to be enabled on rhubarb.xyz.com


And we cannot print. The only fix so far was to remove the printer and re-add the printer and all is fixed.. Any ideas?

[Mel Burslan]

I remember seeing this topic before on these very same forums but the puny search capability did not let me find the exact topic I was looking for. This following came in the google search, which is another thread from here, which may or may not hep you.

Here it is:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x065468c57f64d4118fee0090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1086815087843+28353475


Hope it helps as I do not have this problem with our NT domain printers here.

[Jeroen Peereboom]

I am not sure if I received the exact same message, but I used to have to restart the LPD/TCP print service on the Windows machine. Stop/start wasn't enough, I really needed a command line to kill the process.

JP.