Shut down Windoze and Restart it!?!?

[vincent_kuo at stsl.siemens.com.tw]

Replying notes from Patrick Harrold <patrickh at nasco-inc.com>:

>         Anyway, I have this box(FreeBSD2.2.2) using a remote printer on an 
HP-UX
> 10.10 system.  It is all configured in the printcap, and works splendidly
> from a command line.   I can also see this printer when looking at the
> samba workgroup.  However, when I attempt to configure this as a Win95
> printer, I get a nice little Windoze error mesage stating that there was an
> error writing to the printer, and that I should shut down Windoze and
> restart it?!?!?
>         Anyone run into this?  Any fixes? (I have read everything I can find
> concerning this, and have ordered the Samba book, but it hasn't arrived 
yet).

Apparently Windoze 95 is afraid of dealing even a small error like a non 
printable printer to the extent of recommending shutting itself down. I just 
wonder why they don't make it really shutdown "automatically"... If it's not 
Micro$oft, maybe we are able to change hard disks without shutting down the 
system.

Well, I've run into this problem just a week ago when I first set a Win95 box
to connect to my Linux box running Samba 1.9.18p3. The problem disppeared as 
soon as I set the mode of the printing directory to world writable. That's 
the 'path' specified in the [printers] section. Well, it's documented 
somewhere. No big deal, only sounds like Hell.

Hope this can solve your problem.

Vincent Kuo