[Samba] CUPS and Upload printer drivers ...

C.Lee Taylor leet at leenx.co.za
Sat Mar 27 09:03:24 GMT 2004


Greetings ...

> |    Okay, that is a bit of a problem, is there no way for
> | CUPS to tell  Samba that new printers have been added, or
> | for Samba to Ask CUPS if new  printers have been added ...
> | would work better, and have less problems  ... but then I am
> | just a silly little admin ...
>
> smbd should recognize the printer by name.  The problem referred
> to is that the printer will not show up in a browse list created
> by the [printers] share.
>
> You can run 'killall -HUP smbd' to reload the printers.

    Okay, I have added a "service smb reload" between my "lpadmin" to 
add a printer and "cupsaddsmb" to upload the printer driver ...

Thanks
Mailed
Lee



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