Cups questions ...

[C.Lee Taylor]

Greetings ...

>Ok. Please give me text to put into the HOWTO. Tell me what part of the
>HOWTO it should go into and it will be done.
>
    Me donate any text to the HOWTO, you must be joking, we will have so 
much confusion after that, but thanks for the idea ...  I can try and 
give you an idea what might be a some to put in, hope that helps ...

>>before Cups start, the printer in Cups don't come up with Samba, ( lost
>>our printers after a restart, and took me a few minutes and lots of
>>panic to figure it out ), I see this has been fixed in RawHide.
>>
>>    My question is, Samba chats with the Cups deamon, is possible that
>>Samba could put into the logs that it can't find the Cups deamon, might
>>make less problems.
>>    
>>
>
>The CUPS cupsd program must be started before smbd is started.
>
    Okay, so many be in the trouble-shooting section, something like, if 
your server restarts and Samba comes up too quickly, you might not have 
all your printers, in my case, I had no printers, but that was with cups 
1.1.17, with cups 1.1.19, cups did not even need to be running ... I 
don't know, maybe better libs ...

>Samba-3.0.0 works cleanly with full feature capabilities using CUPS 1.1.18
>and later. Printing works with CUPS 1.1.15 and later.
>
    Might be worth noting, that in the docs, under cups, or maybe, a 
list of better libs/utils to use with Samba, like Kerboes 1.3.1 and so 
on ...

>>    One last question, to backup the "Point-n-Install" printers, one has
>>to backup the drivers directory and tdb with the printer info, but if I
>>remember correctly, you have to shutdown smb, to that, or am I wrong on
>>this account?
>>
>Correct.
>
    So, I will have to shut Samba down, so that I can do a backup of 
need tdb, which tdb's should be backup, I know that the winbind one 
should if you are using it, which I am not, because I am using idmap-ldap.

Mailed
Lee

P.S. As I have stated before, great HOWTO, I now give this too "MSCEs 
know it alls" and tell them to catch-up on what really happens ...