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Date:      Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:06:43 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Pea <bruce_pea@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large print job printing problem
Message-ID:  <20000807210643.M254@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000807192931.61676.qmail@hotmail.com>; from bruce_pea@hotmail.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:29:31PM -0500
References:  <20000807192931.61676.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:29:31PM -0500, Bruce Pea wrote:
> 
> I setup a FreeBSD v4.0 box to act as a print server. Setup went fine and we 
> can print to all our network printers. However if anyone sends a print job 
> larger than .75 meg it won't print the whole job.
> 
> I have my spool set up on /var and we are using samba 2.0.7 on the server as 
> well.
> 
> All in all everything works very well except when you have a large print job 
> to print.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas why this this is behaving this way?
> 

Do the /etc/printcap entries for the printers have ``:mx#0'' in
them? That allows unlimited size print jobs (the default max is 1000
BUFSIZ (512 byte) blocks).

man printcap

> Thanks -
> Bruce
> 
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