Samba complains constantly about CUPS not able to contact localhost.

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Issue

  • Samba complains constantly about CUPS not able to contact localhost.

  • Constantly getting errors like the following in the /var/log/messages file:

    smbd[27135]: [2010/07/04 04:02:24, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_connect(69) 
smbd[27135]:   Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 - Connection refused

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprese Linux
  • Samba
  • CUPS

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