Hi, while using cups as a print system and sharing all the printers with samba to windows clients, is it possible to 'view' a newly created printer in the browse list without restarting smbd ? (samba 2.2.7) Holger
I found it. Holger Krull schrieb:> Hi, > > while using cups as a print system and sharing all the printers with > samba to windows clients, is it possible to 'view' a newly created > printer in the browse list without restarting smbd ? (samba 2.2.7) > > Holger >
> Message: 17 > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:41:51 +0100 > From: Holger Krull <holger.krull@hermos.com> > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] printer list from cups without restart? > > I found it. > > > Holger Krull schrieb: > >> Hi, >> >> while using cups as a print system and sharing all the printers with >> samba to windows clients, is it possible to 'view' a newly created >> printer in the browse list without restarting smbd ? (samba 2.2.7) >> >> Holger >>Hi, Holger, would you please share your secret with me? How *do* you update the view onto printers from Windows clients without restarting Samba? For me it doesn't work since I noticed it a few months ago. Before that, I didn't notice, because I re-started smbd very often anyway (due to my experiments). I am using a range of CUPS versions (up to current CVS) and Samba up to 2.2.6. Windows clients are NT, 2K and XP -- none of the combinations worked. My "printcap" is updated immediately following the deletion or creation of a printqueue (I have more than ~30 regularly -- IIIRC I never tried it with a smaller number of queues...) Even "rpcclient --> enumprinters" doesn't show an update... What is your setup / versions / number of printqueues? I mailed to the Samba list several times about that already but never received any response (well once I was adviced to try SIGHUB, but that doesn't work either -- I really need to stop and start smbd)... Plus I was noticing others asking similar things (like you). Now *you* found it.... Cheers, Kurt
> Message: 17> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:41:51 +0100 > From: Holger Krull <holger.krull@hermos.com> > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] printer list from cups without restart? > > I found it. > > > Holger Krull schrieb: > >> Hi, >> >> while using cups as a print system and sharing all the printers with >> samba to windows clients, is it possible to 'view' a newly created >> printer in the browse list without restarting smbd ? (samba 2.2.7) >> >> Holger >> Hi, Holger, would you please share your secret with me? How *do* you update the view onto printers from Windows clients without restarting Samba? For me it doesn't work since I noticed it a few months ago. Before that, I didn't notice, because I re-started smbd very often anyway (due to my experiments). I am using a range of CUPS versions (up to current CVS) and Samba up to 2.2.6. Windows clients are NT, 2K and XP -- none of the combinations worked. My "printcap" is updated immediately following the deletion or creation of a printqueue (I have more than ~30 regularly -- IIIRC I never tried it with a smaller number of queues...) Even "rpcclient --> enumprinters" doesn't show an update... What is your setup / versions / number of printqueues? I mailed to the Samba list several times about that already but never received any response (well once I was adviced to try SIGHUB, but that doesn't work either -- I really need to stop and start smbd)... Plus I was noticing others asking similar things (like you). Now *you* found it.... Cheers, Kurt
Martin Zielinski wrote on Samba-digest:
Message: 19
From: Martin Zielinski <mz@seh.de>
Organization: SEH Computertechnik GmbH
To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject:
Re: [Samba] printer list from cups without restart?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:00:29 +0100
Hallo Kurt and all, sending SIGHUP to *all* smbd processses works.
(using samba 2.2.6)
bye,
Martin
Thank you Martin,
The "*all*" is probably the key to *one* (small) part of the problem.
(However, I can't test and verify this at the present time).
But the main part of the problem still remains: The Windows
clients don't get the updated printer list automatically, not even
after a long time of waiting. They can't send a SIGHUP to all
smbd processes.
Using "Update View" ("Ansicht aktualisieren") from the
client *does*
spawn a lot of activity in the log.smbd; the "Printer Folder" window
(the one where you access the Samba host via Network Neighbourhood)
goes blank and rebuilds after a few seconds -- but still shows the
"old" list....
So, as a Samba admin, do I have to remember to send SIGHUP manually
to all smbd processes, after every single deletion or addition a
(CUPS) printer, to make sure my users have an uptodate view? Is this
by design? Or is it a shortcoming? Or a bug?
Cheers,
Kurt
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 23:22, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > Message: 17
> > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:41:51 +0100
> > From: Holger Krull <holger.krull@hermos.com>
> > To: samba@lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] printer list from cups without restart?
> >
> > I found it.
> >
> > Holger Krull schrieb:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> while using cups as a print system and sharing all the printers
with
> >> samba to windows clients, is it possible to 'view' a
newly created
> >> printer in the browse list without restarting smbd ? (samba
2.2.7)
> >>
> >> Holger
>
> Hi, Holger,
>
> would you please share your secret with me?
>
> How *do* you update the view onto printers from Windows clients
> without restarting Samba?
>
> For me it doesn't work since I noticed it a few months ago.
> Before that, I didn't notice, because I re-started smbd very often
> anyway (due to my experiments).
>
> I am using a range of CUPS versions (up to current CVS)
> and Samba up to 2.2.6. Windows clients are NT, 2K and XP
> -- none of the combinations worked.
>
> My "printcap" is updated immediately following the deletion
> or creation of a printqueue (I have more than ~30 regularly
> -- IIIRC I never tried it with a smaller number of queues...)
>
> Even "rpcclient --> enumprinters" doesn't show an
update...
>
> What is your setup / versions / number of printqueues?
>
> I mailed to the Samba list several times about that already
> but never received any response (well once I was adviced to
> try SIGHUB, but that doesn't work either -- I really need to
> stop and start smbd)... Plus I was noticing others asking
> similar things (like you).
>
> Now *you* found it....
>
> Cheers,
> Kurt
--=20
Martin Zielinski mz@seh.de