Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote: > Try : killall -s HUP /usr/sbin/smbd >
Apart from the fact that here nothing like this worked here (I tried this first thing) -- I really need to stop and start the daemon.... ...are you saying this is the *default* behaviour, or are you suggesting it as a quick workaround? > is causes that smbd rereads its config. I can cause a *lot* of activity in the samba log files, if I simply hit the "Update View" (F5) key on any client. It then also goes blank for a few seconds, before a printer list comes back. However, I always get the old printer list shown and no update at the end, be it added or deleted printers... I'd regard it as a bug of my currently used version (if no-one tells me about a false setting in my smb.conf). Another point: if one creates individual shares of printers (instead of using the "load printers = Yes"), the update seems to work (as someone on the phone told me just now... > At 11:20 10.09.2002 +0200, Kurt Pfeifle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a question regarding the visible list of printers in the network >> neighbourhood of my Samba server, and how to force it to become updated. >> Maybe one of my settings is wrong? Maybe it is a bug? >> >> My problem (short): >> ------------------- >> Adding a new printer in CUPS creats printcap entry within seconds. >> But becomes not visible in network neighbourhood without re-start of >> smbd. Thanks for answering. Kurt
