[Samba] Windows 2000 printing to public printer

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On 12 Feb 2003, Etienne Tourigny wrote:

> Humm.. I see.  In the smb.conf man page it explains that the "Access
> Denied; Unable to connect" error occurs when the printer is considered a
> local one (because of local drivers) and the user trying to access the
> printer has Administrative rights.  This happens even if a user belongs
> to the "Users" group in Windows 2000 (locally).  But if the drivers are
> on the server there should be no problem.  
> 
> Am I right to say that if one uses a print$ section (even if there are
> no drivers per say on the server) then administrative users will not get
> the "Access Denied; Unable to connect" error, since Windows 2000
> considers it a Network printer?

no.  print$ is just a file share that where windows clients can download 
the drivers from after they have been installed on the Samba host.

> Final point I just realized, is that even if you get this error you can
> still print on the samba printer, but you won't be able to see it's
> status.

Yup.  





cheers, jerry
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