[Samba] Configuring SMB print shares for "Everyone" access

Joel Barnett joel at allegro-music.com
Thu Mar 7 17:15:03 GMT 2002


> Hello everyone,
> 
>      I am having some problems with my printing via smb to a Windows
>      shared 
> printer.  My problem is that we have a winnt machine that shares a
> printer on our network and I am trying to configure my linux machine
> to print to that printer without using any validation.  The win
> machine is part of our domain and everything (including my linux 
> machine) is validated off of our PDC.  Is there a way I can configure
> the "script.cfg" file that RedHat uses to print via SMB?  Can I
> somehow use the "Everyone" group to print to the printer?  The reason
> I ask is that I am helping my school setup a linux lab that has a
> network printer controlled by a WinNT server.  I would like to make it
> so that everyone can print without giving seperate validation.  Thanks
> in advance.

I was able to allow all our users to print to a W2k shared 
printer by enabling the Guest account on the W2k pc.


Joel Barnett
Systems Administrator
Allegro Corporation
503-257-8480 x2059





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