[cups.general] cupsd and smb - problems getting it to work as service

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 20:04 -0500, Walter J. Mack wrote:
> cupsd does not print to an smb printer when the service is started
> through the init.d script.
> However, it does print when starting cupsd -f directly from the command line.
> 
> Below are some details.
> 
> System information:
> Fedora core v6. Installed about a week ago. No major modifications done after install

I expect you are seeing this bug:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214839

which will be fixed in an selinux-policy update shortly.

> I'm baffled why in the case of init.d/cupsd/start the smb spooler is being started, but is unable to load smb.conf,
> when it has no such problem when cupsd is started from a console!

The processes have different SELinux contexts, and so different
privileges.

Tim.
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