[Samba] printer list from cups without restart?

[Martin Zielinski]

Hallo Kurt and all,

sending SIGHUP to *all* smbd processses works.
(using samba 2.2.6)

bye,
Martin

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 23:22, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>  > Message: 17
>  > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:41:51 +0100
>  > From: Holger Krull <holger.krull at hermos.com>
>  > To: samba at lists.samba.org
>  > Subject: Re: [Samba] printer list from cups without restart?
>  >
>  > I found it.
>  >
>  > Holger Krull schrieb:
>  >> Hi,
>  >>
>  >> while using cups as a print system and sharing all the printers with
>  >> samba to windows clients, is it possible to 'view' a newly created
>  >> printer in the browse list without restarting smbd ? (samba 2.2.7)
>  >>
>  >> Holger
>
> Hi, Holger,
>
> would you please share your secret with me?
>
> How *do* you update the view onto printers from Windows clients
> without restarting Samba?
>
> For me it doesn't work since I noticed it a few months ago.
> Before that, I didn't notice, because I re-started smbd very often
> anyway (due to my experiments).
>
> I am using a range of CUPS versions (up to current CVS)
> and Samba up to 2.2.6. Windows clients are NT, 2K and XP
> -- none of the combinations worked.
>
> My "printcap" is updated immediately following the deletion
> or creation of a printqueue (I have more than ~30 regularly
> -- IIIRC I never tried it with a smaller number of queues...)
>
> Even "rpcclient --> enumprinters" doesn't show an update...
>
> What is your setup / versions / number of printqueues?
>
> I mailed to the Samba list several times about that already
> but never received any response (well once I was adviced to
> try SIGHUB, but that doesn't work either -- I really need to
> stop and start smbd)... Plus I was noticing others asking
> similar things (like you).
>
> Now *you* found it....
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt

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Martin Zielinski       mz at seh.de