samba - Dec 2002 - Samba/CUPS new printer not showing up, must restart

Someone please say it isn't so.  I'm running Samba 2.2.7 on Linux, 
compiled from source.  I use CUPS for my printing needs and I have samba 
setup to load printers.  

I'm having 2 problems:

1) if I add a new printer to CUPS (which in turn adds it to 
/etc/printcap) it doesn't show up in Samba.  I've tried to -HUP the smbd
process to get the printer to show up and that didn't work.

Here are my relevent settings in smb.conf

    printcap name = lpstat
    load printers = yes
    printing = cups


The only think I've found that works is restarting samba, this is a 
terrible solution for me because if I restart Samba, which is acting as 
my PDC.  My Windows 2K Server, running SQL Server can no longer 
authenticate users and I have to restart that box to get it to work again.

Is there another solution PLEASE!!!  Having to restart samba to see a 
new printer just seems plain silly to me.


2) Even thought I have samba setup to print using this command:

print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -o raw %s -J'%J' -r

It doesn't seem to be removing the jobs out of my /var/spool/samba 
directory when they are complete, any Ideas why?


Comments, Suggestions, all help appreciated.

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:01, Jason Jeremias wrote:
> Someone please say it isn't so.  I'm running Samba 2.2.7 on Linux, 
> compiled from source.  I use CUPS for my printing needs and I have samba 
> setup to load printers.  
> 
> I'm having 2 problems:
> 
> 1) if I add a new printer to CUPS (which in turn adds it to 
> /etc/printcap) it doesn't show up in Samba.  I've tried to -HUP the
smbd
> process to get the printer to show up and that didn't work.
> 
> Here are my relevent settings in smb.conf
> 
>     printcap name = lpstat
try
printcap name = /etc/printcap.cups

instead
> 
> 2) Even thought I have samba setup to print using this command:
> 
> print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -o raw %s -J'%J' -r
> 
> It doesn't seem to be removing the jobs out of my /var/spool/samba 
> directory when they are complete, any Ideas why?
If i remember correctly, when you use cups the print command is ignored
- instead the files are sent to cups directly.

you might try setting printing to bsd if you want to use lpr to submit
jobs.

brad
> 
> Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>