Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 489299
Printing via Samba on Fedora 10 does not work due to wrong startup procedure through init process
Last modified: 2009-12-18 03:58:49 EST
Description of problem: After a upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 on my wife's PC printing from another PC (Windows or Linux) through samba does not work anymore. I have fixed the problem by changing the sequence of the boot process to start samba after cups is being started. (basically I swapped the two script names: cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ [root@steffi rc5.d]# ls -al *smb* *cups* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 9. Mär 12:36 S91smb -> ../init.d/smb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 6. Mär 06:53 S98cups -> ../init.d/cups mv S98cups S91cups mv S91smb S98smb After a restart printing works again - of course also restarting samba after cups also fixed the issue (though temporary only) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 10 is fully updated and on current status: cups-1.3.9-8.fc10.i386 samba-3.2.8-0.27.fc10.i386 How reproducible: Simply run system-config-printer and try to share the printer. Even if you previously shared the printer through system-config-printer it will show the printer as: Steps to Reproduce: 1. share a printer in system-config-printer / also enable in server settings 2. restart the server (with cups + smb enabled (without swapping of links) 3. start system-config-printer again - look at properties of one printer 4. within policies you'll find the printer shows 'Not published - see server settings' Actual results: Printing from external print client not possible Expected results: Printing through samba should work Additional info:
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Just a quick check - the rc scripts now look like this on f12: # ls -al /etc/rc5.d/{*smb*,*cups*} lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 2009-11-19 11:35 /etc/rc5.d/S25cups -> ../init.d/cups lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 2009-11-19 11:35 /etc/rc5.d/S91smb -> ../init.d/smb Seems fixed there.
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.