The Samba 3.0 roadmap mentions this as a wishlist item for 3.x. I'm interested in looking at it.
Has anybody else already worked on it? It seemed like it would involve a separate smbd process repeatedly parsing the output of lpq and feeding it into a database, rather than this being done on-demand from a regular smbd child. I suppose when some change is noticed it will have to send a message to prod other smbds. It might be good for there to also be a way for the spooler to notify Samba when something has happened, so as to avoid polling. This seems like it might help print server efficiency with many jobs or printers. Am I on the right track? -- Martin
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