Samba fails to share printer in 10.04 (convert cups to upstart)

[MagnusPI]

Binary package hint: samba

Smbd daemon starts before cups daemon and therefore fails to see and share printer.
If you manually restart smbd, printers are seen.

Samba version: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3

Without doing nothing after the system boot
igor@hjemme:~$ smbclient -L /192.168.1.2
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[STRINGA] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7]

 Sharename Type Comment
 --------- ---- -------
 print$ Disk Printer Drivers
 IPC$ IPC IPC Service (hjemme server (Samba, Ubuntu))

After restarting smbd
igor@hjemme:~$ smbclient -L /192.168.1.2
Domain=[STRINGA] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7]

 Sharename Type Comment
 --------- ---- -------
 print$ Disk Printer Drivers
 IPC$ IPC IPC Service (hjemme server (Samba, Ubuntu))
 LaserJet-1100 Printer Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100

Here you can see that the smbd is started before cups
igor@hjemme:~$ ps aux | grep smb
root 598 0.0 0.0 15304 312 ? Ss 15:02 0:00 smbd -F
root 667 0.0 0.0 15304 96 ? S 15:02 0:00 smbd -F

igor@hjemme:~$ ps aux | grep cups
root 832 0.0 0.1 6824 568 ? Ss 15:02 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Cups need to be converted to upstart as well.

[volinthius (volinthius)]

I'm seeing this as well. The cups init script contains:

...
# X-Start-Before: samba
# X-Stop-After: samba
...

It seems that 'X-Start-Before' and 'X-Stop-After' aren't compatible with upstart. I fixed this by calling 'initctl emit cups-started' when starting cups, and hooking on to that in samba init script. The correct fix would be to convert cups to upstart.

Ubuntu Server 10.04
samba: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3
cups: 1.4.3-1

[Krzysztof Matusik (krzysztof-matusik)]

I think this is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/520497
as this could be easily solved converting cups to upstart.

regards