Samba: CUPS printers are not available at startup

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Dear fellows

In my Maverick 64 or Natty 64 installs I do not see the expected
automatic reload of CUPS by Samba.

So, every time (hopefully seldon) my system is restarted I manually
run "service smbd restart" to enable shared printers through Samba. Of
course, if smb.conf is edited, smbd auto-reloads and this condition
will not be observed up to the next startup.

I have been following:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/494141
because I thought that was the problem, however they clearly state
that this bug is Lucid-only. Maverick and above should see CUPS
periodically reloaded by the smb.conf parameter "printcap cache time =
700" which I reduced to 30 seconds to no avail.

It seems there's something wrong with my smb or CUPS configuration,
which by the way are very near to default, by I can't find it up.

Can anyone using a Samba server with shared printers please confirm if
this is a local problem (I guess it is) and in this case post any
particular smb parameter needed, besides the usual:

load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups

Below the testparm print of the Natty test install:

$ testparm

rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

[global]
	workgroup = MSHOME
	server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
	map to guest = Bad User
	obey pam restrictions = Yes
	pam password change = Yes
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
	passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
	username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
	unix password sync = Yes
	syslog = 0
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
	max log size = 1000
	printcap cache time = 30
	printcap name = cups
	dns proxy = No
	usershare allow guests = Yes
	panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	create mask = 0700
	printable = Yes
	browseable = No


Thanks,

Lucio

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu