samba - Mar 2004 - CUPS and Upload printer drivers ...

Greetings ...

    I'm using the "cupsaddsmb" to upload the CUPS printer drivers
onto
my Samba server, but seem to be having problems with new printer 
queues.  I find if that I reload Samba, the upload works fine, otherwise 
I get "result was WERR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME", which I think maybe
Samba
needs to ask CUPS if the queue is new or something.

    Could any boby help me with this problem?

Thanks
Mailed
Lee

C.Lee Taylor a ?crit:
> Greetings ...
>
>    I'm using the "cupsaddsmb" to upload the CUPS printer
drivers onto
> my Samba server, but seem to be having problems with new printer 
> queues.  I find if that I reload Samba, the upload works fine, 
> otherwise I get "result was WERR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME", which I
think
> maybe Samba needs to ask CUPS if the queue is new or something.
>
>    Could any boby help me with this problem?
>
> Thanks
> Mailed
> Lee
>
Yes you're right, Samba needs to be restarted for cupsaddsmb recognize 
the new printers

Cheers,

Norbert

> >> otherwise I get "result was WERR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME",
which I
think
> >> maybe Samba needs to ask CUPS if the queue is new or something.
Right now Samba doesn't know about changes in CUPS.  However, if you
make a change to smb.conf or send a SIGHUP to the smbd daemons, they
will reload their configuration and part of that process is asking CUPS
what queues it has now.
> > Yes you're right, Samba needs to be restarted for cupsaddsmb
recognize
> > the new printers
SIGHUP is all that is needed, no need to restart.
>     Okay, that is a bit of a problem, is there no way for CUPS to tell
> Samba that new printers have been added, or for Samba to Ask CUPS if
new
> printers have been added ... would work better, and have less problems
> ... but then I am just a silly little admin ...
Samba CAN ask CUPS if new printers have been added, it just doesn't do
it periodically for no reason.  I thought there was an enhancement
request in bugzilla to do something about this, but now I can't find it.

~ Daniel







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