[cups.general] Excessive Get-Printer-Attributes in CUPS

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Jeff Hardy wrote:

> load printers = yes
> printing = cups
> printcap name = cups
> cups options = raw
> show add printer wizard = yes
> addprinter command = /usr/local/bin/smbaddprinter.pl
> deleteprinter command = /usr/local/bin/smbdelprinter.pl

These may well be the complete parameters written down in smb.conf by
you that relate to printing.

But for sure these are *NOT* the complete parameters used by Samba!

Samba uses a lot of default, built-in/compiled-in parameters which you
do not need to specify in smb.conf in order to see them used.

For a complete picture of paramaters used by your running Samba processes,
try this command:

   testparm -sv

For a (fairly) complete picture of printing and CUPS related parameters,
try this:

   testparm -sv | grep -E "print|driver|lp|cups|spool"

(This may not find all settings contained inside [print$], [printers] or
[some_printer_name] sections...)

Try to set a "printcap cache time = 60" and see if your problem goes
away.

-- 
Kurt Pfeifle
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