I have set "Printcap /dev/null" in cupsd.conf and re-started cupsd first then smbd. Guess what? "smbclient -L localhost" still lists all my printers! And I can still print from my Windows apps. (I can't print anymore from OpenOffice, since that one *does* look for a printcap....)
In desperation I tried "printcap = /etc/printcap" even though the HOWTO
recommended "printcap = cups" and Kurt's advice above is that you could
even redirect to /dev/null. Guess what, it worked. At least on my
install, it seems to require that you do have a real, live printcap even
for CUPS printing support. I then added another printer via the redhat
printer config tool, which added it to CUPS. I restarted smb and the
new printer showed up on my Windows clients. So, the residual question
is why does it require a real printcap file even under CUPS support?
I think you should submit a bug report to http://bugzilla.samba.org/
The docs don't seem to feel that it should.
Now I need to solve the "You do not have sufficient access to your computer to connect to this printer" problem from the Windows clients. :-)
Thanks for the help,
Fran
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