Samba slow to start on bootup

[Gareth Bailey]

Aah! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. In
debug mode the problem was revealed:

"Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Operation
timed out"

Cheers,
Gareth

On Mon, 17 May 2004 12:30:56 +0200
 Nelis Lamprecht <nelis at 8ball.co.za> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:56, Gareth Bailey wrote:
> > I stopped samba using samba.sh stop, then started it
> again
> > with samba.sh start. You are correct as far as the
> output
> > goes, only "Samba" is written to console. But Samba
> took 30
> > - 40 seconds to load! It seems Samba is actually
> causing
> > the pause.
> > 
> > Why would this be?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Gareth
> 
> Try running smbd in debug mode smbd -F -S -d3 and see if
> anything stands
> out. Perhaps a server you have specified in your
> configuration file is
> unavailable or not responding. Do the same for nmbd.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Nelis Lamprecht
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