[Samba] printer list from cups without restart?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Holger Krull wrote:

> 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.

This doesn't work for me....
(Details to my versions in my previous mail. Still attached below)

> 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.

This is probably related to the fact that smbd scans its smb.conf
every 20 seconds...

> Holger
> 

Cheers,
Kurt


> 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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