[Samba] Samba looses its print share

[Joern Knechtel]

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