Problems printing - Samba + CUPS on Linux shared to Windows 98

From: Jeffrey Silverman (jeffrey_at_jhu.edu)
Date: 09/09/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:37:15 -0400

Not sure who would best be able to help me, thus the x-posting.

I have a user who was happily printing away up until last thursday or so.
After that, she stopped being able to print to one printer.

Details:
 Print server runs RHL9, up2date'ed with all the latest.
 CUPS as print server
 Samba as SMB server
 Two shared printers - (1) HP LJ 2100, and (2) Tek Phaser 780. Both with
NICs

Client A runs Win98. She stopped being able to print to printer (1). She
*can* still print to printer (2)

Client B runs WinXP. He has no problems printing to either printer.

Client C Runs RHL9. He also has no problems printing to either printer.

Printers are shared via SMB to *all* clients.

I checked the following logs:
/var/log/cups/access_log
/var/log/cups/error_log
/var/log/samba/*

I set the LogLevel to debug, warn, and info in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf at
different times and tried printing test pages from Client A.

I have not been able to find anything useful in any of those logs.

Can anyone, at the very least, give me suggestions as to how I can debug
this. Better, yet, of course, is someone who has seen similar problems
and can actually provide a solution.

I will post the relevant config file details as requested.

Thanks!! 

-- 
    Jeffrey D. Silverman | jeffrey AT jhu DOT edu
Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD
                 Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/

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