Problem printing from NT to printer attached to LInux box
Carlton Davis
cdavis at netprudent.com
Wed Nov 21 12:12:19 GMT 2001
Thanks again for you response Joel. I don't have checkpc installed on
my box. My Samba set up is working in an acceptable way now; thanks to
Christian for his suggestion; see Christian's posting on this thread.
Best regards,
-Carlton
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Have you run checkpc -f as root?
> Here is what my /var/spool/lpd/ps looks like with ls -al:
>
> [root at cc846558-a jlh]# ls -al /var/spool/lpd/ps
> total 110
> drwx--S--- 2 daemon lp 2048 Nov 16 20:19 . <---/ps
> drwx--S--- 13 daemon lp 1024 Nov 12 19:42 .. <--/lpd
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 69 Feb 20 2001 control.ps
> -rwx------ 1 daemon lp 416 Feb 27 2001 filter
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 68658 Aug 6 09:07 log
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 5 Feb 18 2001 lp0
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 5 Feb 18 2001 lp1
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 2 Aug 18 16:46 ps
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Dec 19 1999 status
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 3892 Aug 6 09:08 status.ps
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 6 Aug 6 09:07 unspooler.ps
>
> I must say, I do not understand what the "S" is saying about permissions.
> That adds group id on execution of a file (chmod 4700) but I do not know
> what that means for a directory. May have to do with who can descend the
> directory.
> Joel
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:37:54PM -0500, Carlton Davis wrote:
> > Thanks for your response Joel. The problem I am encountering though
> > is not related to the permision of lpr because it is already suid
> > as indicated below.
> > -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 16224 Mar 11 2000 /usr/bin/lpr
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > -Carlton
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Joel Hammer wrote:
> >
> > > Hmmmm...
> > > A juicy permissions problem.
> > > Try running checkpc -f and see if that fixes up permissions for you.
> > > Below are the permissions on lpr, I assume your print command.
> > > It needs to be suid.
> > > rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 235672 Feb 17 2000 /usr/bin/lpr
> > > Joel
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Carlton Davis wrote:
> > > > I installed Samba 2.2.2 on my Linux box. The smb.conf file is as shown
> > > > below. The permission on /var/spool/lpd/lp is set to 755; ie, it is
> > > > writable only by the owner, which is lp. With the setup as is, when I
> > > > try to print from the NT machine, the smb log on the Linux box
> > > > indicates the following error: " print_job_start: insufficient
> > > > permissions to open spool file /var/spool/lpd/lp".
> > > > If I set the permission on /var/spool/lpd/lp to 777, I can
> > > > print; however, for obvious security concerns, this solution is
> > > > undesirable.
> > > >
> > > > Could someone inform me as to what is the correct way to set things up
> > > > to allow printing from my NT machine without making /var/spool/lpd/lp
> > > > writable by all. My smb.conf file is shown below.
> > > >
> > > > [global]
> > > > netbios name = bert
> > > > workgroup = WORKGROUP
> > > > hosts allow = 10.10.10. 127.
> > > > load printers = yes
> > > > max log size = 50
> > > > security = server
> > > > password server = 10.10.10.8
> > > > socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> > > >
> > > > [printers]
> > > > comment = All Printers
> > > > path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
> > > > browseable = yes
> > > > guest ok = yes
> > > > writable = no
> > > > printable = yes
> > > > public = yes
> > > > write list = @administrators,root
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > -Carlton
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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