Samba printer is not shared after boot

[Alfred]

Binary package hint: samba

A CUPS printer working flawlessly on the computer locally isn't shared after boot even if configured correctly. Only after applying "sudo service smbd restart" the printer shows up on a client as a shared printer on the server (both Ubuntu/Windows/other samba clients).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
BothFailedConnect: Yes
Date: Tue May 17 18:13:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
NmbdLog:
 Packet send failed to 192.168.1.255(138) ERRNO=Invalid argument
   Packet send failed to 192.168.1.255(137) ERRNO=Network is unreachable
   send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP 192.168.1.255 port 137 failed
   query_name: Failed to send packet trying to query name WFW<1d>
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_AT:en
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SambaServerRegression: Yes
SmbConfIncluded: Yes
SmbLog:
 getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
   getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
   getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
SourcePackage: samba
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Richard Gabriel (dj-dick)]

Got exactly the same problem... after restarting smbd, printer sharing works well.

[Alfred (alfred-egger)]

As a workaround, I added the following to /etc/rc.local:

#!/bin/sh -e

/sbin/reload smbd

exit 0

The problem is obviously that cups is started after samba and so the printer is not shared by samba at boot. This problem is now around for several versions of Ubuntu, althought a fix is already released.