Delay accessing SAMBA shares via the favorites menu

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Environment

Suse Linux Open Enterprise Server 9

samba-3.0.2.0b-3.4

Situation

Accessing a SAMBA share from the favorites menu after 20-30 minutes of nonuse takes 20 seconds or more to open the share.

Resolution

The smbd server is trying to talk to the cups daemon on a machine that doesn't have any printers installed.

In the [Global] section of the /etc/samba/smb.conf file change the following:

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

to read :

printing = bsd

printcap name = /etc/printcap

and comment out the line:

cups options = raw

Additional Information

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