Samba: CUPS printers are not available at startup

[NoOp]

On 04/20/2011 05:53 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:56 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> You get this sorted out? Sorry I didn't do anything further as I was
>> away/sailing last weekend & forgot to respond.
>>
>> G.
> 
> In fact no.
> 
> Since the issue is apparent in both current Maverick install and a
> brand new Natty, you cannot reproduce it and the Ubuntu guys say it is
> a Lucid bug, I'm probably facing a local problem, a hardware issue.
> 
> I intend to test my station again, stripping it of any unnecessary
> add-ons, such as one suspicious USB connected, cheap, multiple card
> reader (never used it). Also, I will test this issue on a couple of
> stations nearby.
> 
> However as I'm dealing with this issue for a long time now and already
> accustomed to restarting smbd and hardware testing will require
> switching off the system, grabbing a screwdriver, bringing in the
> compressor to to clean the unit, its neighbors and all the stuff we
> should do given he opportunity, I think it won't be done during this
> long weekend (beginning on Thursday).
...

I wonder if the problem is related to your Firestarter. I had installed
Firestarter on my laptop for testing, closed it down, did some kernel
updates, and tried to connect to the laptop from my desktop via samba &
couldn't. Firestarter wasn't running.

$ smbclient -L //127.0.0.1

wasn't finding the laptop (even after restarting smbd & nmbd). It now does.

I then purged Firestarter on the laptop & rebooted & now I find and
connect to the laptop shares from the just fine. I'm too tired digg into
it further tonight, but it's something you might consider investigating.