[Samba] Restart Samba to pickup added CUPS printers?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Joshua Penix wrote:
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| On Sep 15, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Michael Lueck wrote:
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|> 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.
|
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| 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

Or you can use the 'printcap cache time' option (added a
few releases ago).  See the smb.conf(5) man page for details.






cheers, jerry
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