[Samba] Samba looses its print share
Joern Knechtel
itservice at despammed.com
Fri Jul 9 01:22:31 GMT 2004
Karel De Vriendt wrote:
> I am using Samba 3.0.4-1.12 under SuSE 9.1 to make my printer (an HP
> PSC950) available to the rest of the family (that is using Windows
> machines). The printer is configured via CUPS.
>
> OK except for one thing: regularly, Samba seems to loose the print share
> (printer no longer reachable from the Windows machines, printer no
> longer listed as shared when I do "smbclient -L localhost -U%".
>
> Stopping and restarting smb (./smb stop and ./smb start as root)
> normally cures the problem.
>
> Happens every couple of days.
Have the same problem on several servers too.
Did some kinda workaround by writing a samba reload into a
cronjob every day prior the working hours.
Not very elegant but helps. Maybe someone can put a light
on us :-)
jk
PS: Running a combo of Debian & Samba
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