[Samba] SMB/Cups Printcap problem.

[Daniel J. Costello]

Hello all.

I'm currently setting up a RedHat box with 4 nics to handle SMB 
printing for 4 separate subnets.
I have CUPS printing set up and functioning.  I have a separate 
smb.conf file configured to bind to one interface each, and everything 
is dandy.

Here is where I hit my problem.  When I have the following line from 
the conf file set as you see it, I see all the print queues without a 
problem from an XP machine:

	# if you want to automatically load your printer list rather
	# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
  		  printcap name = cups
  		  load printers = yes

Now since there are 40 printers set up in CUPS, and I only want 10 or 
so to be viewed by this interface/subnet, I have created a new file as 
a bogus printcap with only queue names listed.  Now this works for all 
printers with queue names shorter than 11 or so characters.  At this 
point, the smb.conf lines look like so:

	 # if you want to automatically load your printer list rather
	 # than setting them up individually then you'll need this
  		  printcap name = /etc/printc14
  		  load printers = yes

I have read that its a file length issue regarding the queue names. Why 
do all the queues show up when the printcap is set to cups, and not 
when a printcap file is used?  Is cups doing something special to 
accomplish this?

At this point in the game, switching queue names would mean a lot of 
work, so I would like to try to keep our naming convention if possible. 
  Does anyone know of a solution to this problem, or have info on how 
cups is accomplishing this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kindest Regards,
Daniel Costello

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Daniel J. Costello
Unix Systems Administrator
danielc at clinedavis.com
(212) 450-2961
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