On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, when printing from Samba to network printers, we receive a 'NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL' error and jobs are being held

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Issue

When we tried printing from Samba to a few network printers, we get the following error and jobs are put on hold:

E [10/Aug/2009:10:38:45 +1000] [Job 231320] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR:  Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
E [10/Aug/2009:10:38:45 +1000] [Job 195830] Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR:  Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5
  • Samba server configured to send print jobs to network printers

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