[Samba] split samba/cups into separate machines

[Ryan Suarez]

Hi Jerry,

Great, thanks for the tip. 

Does that mean that new installs of samba require installing cups on the 
local machine first, then removing cups and setting the 'cups server' 
directive?

much appreciated,
Ryan

> | We use samba 3.0.7 and cups 1.1.20 on debian woody to serve
> | point'n'print to XP clients.  This works great, much kudos to the samba
> | team!
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> | We are seeing high load on the printserver and we would like to know if
> | it's possible to split the samba and cups installation into 2 separate
> | machines.
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> Yes.  The 'cups server' smb.conf(5) parameter was added in a
> recent release.  Might be in 3.0.7.
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> cheers, jerry
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