[Samba] Printing problems with Win2000

[Anna Arbit]

If i understand the situation correctly, you samba server is part of the
domain (which you joined by following the samba docs) and you are logged in
locally on your workstation. with this configuration, you cannot get to the
printers without authenticating manually

this is what i did to solve the problem

[GLOBAL]
...
guest ok = yes
map to guest = Bad User
guest account = guest
...

[print$]
   guest ok = yes
   writable = yes
   read only = no
   write list = aarbit
        |-W32X86        ; "Windows NT x86"
        |-WIN40         ; "Windows 96/98"
   printer admin = aarbit

and also you have to add guest account to your samba server

bad user setting means
Bad User - Means user logins with an invalid password are rejected, unless
the username does not exist, in which case it is treated as a guest login
and mapped into the guest account.

i hope this helps..
-anna

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of Wade Winright
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 3:05 PM
To: 'Meli Marco'
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: [Samba] Printing problems with Win2000


Even though User Manager will show your samba box, it still has to be joined
to the domain using smbpasswd to work correctly. I have a samba box here set
up on an NT domain and on a AD/win2k domain. Both had to be joined to the
domain using smbpasswd to work with security = domain.
Am I making sense?
Feel free to drop me a line if I'm not.

Wade

-----Original Message-----
From: Meli Marco [mailto:Marco.Meli at it.sinter.gknplc.com]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:51 AM
To: 'Wade Winright'
Subject: R: [Samba] Printing problems with Win2000

No, because when I specify: security=DOMAIN, then the PDC of the network
resolve the request to the linux box, in this way you must specify the
user password sometime, for the share folder it works fine, and it is
much more secure, but I do not understand because it doesn't work with
the objects in the network wood like the printers, then it works fine
with the other win9x clients.
I try the same in the way you answered me, but it doesn't work.Give me
other suggestions please.
Marco.

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da:	Wade Winright [SMTP:Wwinrigh at thecreek.com]
> Inviato:	venerdì 15 marzo 2002 16.54
> A:	'Meli Marco'; 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Oggetto:	RE: [Samba] Printing problems with Win2000
>
> Have you used smbpasswd to join the samba box to the domain? Just a
> thought...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meli Marco [mailto:Marco.Meli at it.sinter.gknplc.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:50 AM
> To: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: [Samba] Printing problems with Win2000
>
> Hi all,
> I have set in smb.conf:
> workgroup = "NAMEWORKGROUP"
> security = DOMAIN
> encrypt passwords = yes
> password server = "NAMESERVER"
> in this way I do not have problems for autenticate my win2000 and
> win9x
> users by my NT Domain Controller, and share a linux directory, but is
> not the same for the printers:
> while with the win9x accounts I be able to connect a network printer,
> with the win2000 accounts I am not be able.
> In the first case I can view the printer in the network root folder,
> in
> the second case I can only view the linux server, bat when I click on
> it, it ask me the username and password, and I can not view the
> printer.
> I think, this dipend by the different system autenticate, but I can
> not
> resolve the problem, Anyone can help me,please.
> Thanks a lot.
> Marco.
>
>
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