[Samba] printer list from cups without restart?

[Holger Krull]

Sorry to all for not telling the solution, i believed it was so obvious 
once i found it, so i felt a little ashamed for asking.

As Martin Zielinski wrote sending sighup to all procesesses will work. 
To my surprise a '/etc/init.d/smb reload' does exactly this, and i 
believed this script exists on every machine, and everyone knew about it.

I'm am now searching how to get rid of the 20 seconds delay on the 
windows clients when browsing the printer list for the first time.

Holger


Kurt Pfeifle schrieb:
> 
>  > 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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