ORACLE ERP NETWORK SHARED PRINTING THROUGH SAMBA COULD NOT PRINT

ORACLE ERP NETWORK SHARED PRINTING THROUGH SAMBA COULD NOT PRINT

Redhat Linux powers our Oracle ERP Financial Module Application. We have set it up in such a way that users could print to a networked printer identified inside the Oracle Application. There are occasions where people could not print to a particular printer. It was noted that this happens usually after a long work break like holidays or long weekends.

The problem was traced to changing in IP address of the printer host computer. Usually the IP address were assigned dynamically by a DHCP server. Over a long period of time the IP address were refreshed which explains the Samba could not print to a networked printer.

The solution was to assign fixed IP address to printer host computer in the DHCP server. Similar problem could sometimes be attributed to a change in the printer host computer like when the old computers were change. Another problem that could cause this is a change in the operating system which host the printer such as fresh installation after a computer virus infection. There are cases when the printer share names were accidentally changed.

Those are several reasons which could cause the failure to print. Checking on those points would somehow fix the problem of printing from an ERP application.

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