Samba: CUPS printers are not available at startup

[NoOp]

On 04/15/2011 12:09 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
...
> It is weird.
> 
> Reinstalled Natty 64 with a clean /home, which I guess shouldn't make
> any difference since cups and samba modules are expected to load
> before login (I guess smbd doesn't). Installed only the Nvidia driver
> and Samba and tested it with a different workgroup name and then with
> the common workgroup (MSHOME). Reduced the number of Samba servers to
> the absolute minimum (2 - one for printers - Natty - and another for
> files). the only non default parameters are: printcap cache time = 75
> and printcap name = cups.
> 
> Smbd should refresh every 75 seconds, but it doesn't. If I manually
> reload: sudo service restart smbd, printers (2 USB) are immediately
> loaded and available for the other stations.
> 
> Before:
> 
> $ smbclient -L lm-###
> Enter lm's password:
> Anonymous login successful
> Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.8]
> 
> 	Sharename       Type      Comment
> 	---------       ----      -------
> 	print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
> 	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (lm-xfx server (Samba, Ubuntu))
> Anonymous login successful
> Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.8]
> 
> 	Server               Comment
> 	---------            -------
> 	LM-###               lm-xfx server (Samba, Ubuntu)
> 	STUDIO
> 	UBUNTU               ubuntu server (Samba, Ubuntu)
> 
> 	Workgroup            Master
> 	---------            -------
> 	MSHOME               UBUNTU
> 
> after sudo service restart smbd
> 
> ~$ sudo service smbd restart
> [sudo] password for lm:
> smbd start/running, process 2041
> 
> $ smbclient -L lm-###
> Enter lm's password:
> Anonymous login successful
> Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.8]
> 
> 	Sharename       Type      Comment
> 	---------       ----      -------
> 	print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
> 	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (lm-xfx server (Samba, Ubuntu))
> 	Stylus-CX5600   Printer   EPSON Stylus CX5600
> 	HL-1440-series  Printer   Brother HL-1440 series
> Anonymous login successful
> Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.8]
> 
> 	Server               Comment
> 	---------            -------
> 	LM-###               lm-xfx server (Samba, Ubuntu)
> 	STUDIO
> 	UBUNTU               ubuntu server (Samba, Ubuntu)
> 
> 	Workgroup            Master
> 	---------            -------
> 	MSHOME               UBUNTU
> 
> 
> It's a bit late over here and I need some sleep. Perhaps tomorrow
> brings me an insight.
> 
> As always, thanks for your help.
> 
> L.
> 

You get this sorted out? Sorry I didn't do anything further as I was
away/sailing last weekend & forgot to respond.

G.