[Samba] Samba and Cups [BUG in alpha24]

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Sven Anderson sven_anderson at spray.se

> Fri May 23 21:49:15 GMT 2003
> 
> 
> Cups must be started before smbd or vise versa. Try both.

Not "vice versa". CUPS must be up and running ("lpstat -r" must be
returning "scheduler is running").

This is precisely because of the described bug, which causes
Samba *not* to update the list of available printers during
run time re-reads of the smb.conf, but only during startup or
after HUP signals.

This is not yet fixed in 3.0alpha24.

>> ------- Ursprungligt meddelande ------- 
>>
>> Från:	 Kurt Pfeifle  <kpfeifle at danka.de>
>> Ämne:	[Samba] Samba and Cups
>> Datum:	Fri, 23 May 2003 19:54:19 +0200
>>
>>Kevin Smith ksmith at perfht.com
>>
>>> Fri May 23 12:01:01 GMT 2003
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes I see that, the CUPS printcap has just the printer sharename in it.
>>> Now CUPS does work as far as printing test sheets from the Web Interface,
>>> the issue seems to be why samba doesn't recognize it
>>
>>You need to restart Samba or at least do a
>>
>>    "kill -HUP `pidof smbd`"
>>
>>to have newly installed CUPS (and other?) printers recognized by Samba.
>>
>>Note, that this is not the intended behaviour, but a bug in various recent
>>2.2.x releases as well as the current 3.0alpha24.
>>
>>Intended behaviour is to have it available in "near-realtime".
>>
>>> and let me add the
>>> printer to the clients. There is always a possibility that Im missing
>>> something.
>>> In the Win9X clients, when I try to add a printer, it says the share isn't
>>> there. Now I don't have a model printer share ([Epson] ect.) in the
>>> smb.conf, but from all Vie read, I shouldn't need one, CUPS should take care
>>> of all that.
>>
>>That's right. Re-start smbd or send all smbd processes a HUP and see
>>if this works then.
>>