[Bug 494141] Re: CUPS starts after SAMBA; printers are not available (convert cups to upstart)

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Although the default smb.conf parameter "printing" equals to "cups"
(printing = cups) unless the parameter "printcap name" is set (printcap
name = cups) the printers do not load in the periodical "samba reload"
process referred at #30, thus requiring  a manual "sudo service smbd
restart".

Since I try to keep my smb.conf as lean as possible, trying to keep the
defaults,  I didn't notice this up to some minutes ago when checked the
smb.conf file at #42. My fault, sorry, feel really ashamed, but if one
day someone arrives here looking for a solution for this bug while
riding a Maverick or Natty my mistake can be useful.

So Martin Pitt was right, in Maverick and (by the way) Natty, although
CUPS isn't available at samba startup, and this is a nuisance,  it is
automatically reloaded according to the "printcap cache time" parameter
which defaults to 750, (too much for me, reduced to 300 or five minutes
"printcap cache time = 300") providing you set "printcap name = cups"
which, at the original smb.conf,  looks like default but isn't...

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Title:
  CUPS starts after SAMBA; printers are not available (convert cups to
  upstart)