[Samba] Samba 4.19.4 as printer server: printer are not show in browser

[Kees van Vloten]

On 23-02-2024 11:35, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:27:26 +0100
> Dario Lesca via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Il giorno gio, 22/02/2024 alle 10.04 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba ha
>> scritto:
>>> when I clicked on the DCs icon, it opened and there was lp1.
>> Thank for your test, but ...
>>
>> The printers added manually into smb.conf are always show and work
>> also in RH and Arch Linux when this problem under analysis and still
>> unknown occurs.
>>
>> On these for now 2 systems only the CUPS shared printers, included via
>> [printers] session, are not shown in some cases.
>>
>> Dario
>>
>
> OK, I have been doing some thinking about this.
> The 'browseable' parameter does not refer to the printers, it refers to
> the 'printers' share itself and you do not want that showing on a
> browser, which explains why the added separate printer is shown.
>
> So why isn't Samba showing your cups printers ?
> One reason could be that cups is starting after Samba and hence there
> are no cups configurations for Samba to create printers from.
>
> Rowland
>
Is "browseable" still a thing?

Is it not a netbios / nmbd feature and now obsolete?

- Kees.

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