[Samba] Restart Samba to pickup added CUPS printers?
Joshua Penix
jpenix at binarytribe.com
Wed Sep 15 21:56:11 GMT 2004
On Sep 15, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Michael Lueck wrote:
> Is telling Samba to restart the only method to have it detect new CUPS
> printers. I have Samba configured to share what ever CUPS printers it
> finds set up in CUPS. A bit annoying to kick everyone out of Samba to
> add a printer.
No, you can send the HUP signal to the running smbd processes to have
them see new printers without disconnecting the clients. This also
causes a re-read of smb.conf and a few other things.
killall -sHUP smbd
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Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com
Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting
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