[CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

Kevin Thorpe kevin.thorpe at pibenchmark.com
Wed Jun 22 16:43:36 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:41 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Kevin Thorpe wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there?
>>
>> Bah! I saw that lpr could print PS but smbclient coudn't so in desperation
>> I restarted samba. Now it prints PS. Why is completely beyond me.
>> That's why I couldn't work out what I'd done wrong - I hadn't.
>>
> Following up my last post, I just looked at the smbd manpage - this may be
> of interest, from the very *bottom* of the manpage:
>
> <snip>
> SIGNALS
>
>   Sending the smbd a SIGHUP will cause it to reload its smb.conf configu-
>   ration file within a short period of time.

Yup, I tried SIGHUP. That didn't fix it but restart did - I guess Samba is a
bit too much like windows ;-)


-- 
Kevin Thorpe
Head of IT



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