It seems you're suggesting that the problem is Samba attempting to connect to the print service. So the same scenario arises even if lo is up but CUPS is down?
In the interests of robustness, Samba should bring itself up even if it can't access CUPS. -- SMBD hangs on startup if lo is down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs