[Samba] printer admin deprecated: please explain

[Ryan Novosielski]

Franz Pfoertsch wrote:
> I am Running a printserver using SLES9 SP3 with Samba 3.0.20b and 
> cups 1.1.20 
> Since the update to Samba 3.0.20 every start of a client program tells me
> WARNING: The "printer admin" option is deprecated
>
> Ok, I understood I should use 
>
>  net rpc rights grant "<User or Group>" SePrintOperatorPrivilege -U ..
>
> But I haven't any adminuser to grant this rights.
>
> In my environment I put the machine into the AD by
>  kinit <UserWithPermissionsToJoinIntoTheDomain>@<DOMAIN>
>  net ads join -> joined
>
> and all permission granted by the "printer admin" option.
>
> Is there any other way to get SePrintOperator without a other strong user?
>
> regards
> Franz
>   
How can you not have an admin user -- who do you have defined under 
"printer admin"? Or were you not using this definition at all and that 
is a spurious error message? If you ARE using printer admin = someone, 
then you'd just grant the rights to that same user.

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