Samba printing (status =held )

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> on Tue, 13 Aug 2013
10:17:35 -0400

> I have two computers,
> 
> 1. A desktop to which my printer is attached.  The desktop computer is a 
> Linux machine and acts as a samba server.
> 
> 2. A laptop which dual boots Windows 7 and Linux.
> 
> The problem is printing with the laptop.  The printer works correctly 
> when corrected directly to the laptop or the desktop so I am sure that 
> it is not a printer hardware problem.  When I try to print something on 
> the laptop using the samba network, the job goes to the desktop for 
> printing but nothing is printed.  When I view the printer queue, the 
> laptops print job is shown but its status is "held".  I tried everything 
> to get the print job to print but no success.   I'm sure I overlooked 
> something, but what is it?  Any suggestions?

I had a similar problem.  I have Samba and CUPS installed.

When I first set up my system printing worked without problems.  At some point
I could not print and I could not figure out how to release the file from the
print queue.  I did find a message for the queued file that stated a filter
failed, I do not have any filters defined, so I do not understand what was
happening.

Being somewhat of a newbe on Ubuntu my solution my not have been the most
effective solution.  What I did to fix the problem was delete the printer
objects and recreate them on three computers to get printing working again.

-- 
Robert Blair