smbclient and win2000

Joost Bijl j.k.bijl at its.tudelft.nl
Wed Jan 24 19:06:13 GMT 2001


> I'll apologise in advance that this question MUST have
> come up already but I can't find any reference to it in my archives
> or on the web. I suspect that's because of the nine billions names of
> windows:
> W2K, WIN2k, WIN2000, 2000 NT/2000 ...

:)

> I've recently moved to a little cubby hole (small office) and have
> a small laser jet printer (oh lucky me)
>
> However I want to do all my printing from various SOLARIS boxes. Now I'm
> pretty
> familiar with setting up the smbprint stuff with sysV printing ... that's
> not
> my problem.
>
> The problem is the printer is DIRECTLY attached to the LPT port of a
WIN2000
> PC. I've shared it out and other WIN2000 PCs can access it fine.
>
> If I do smclient -L (many different choices of options) I get one of two
> possible results:
>
>
> If I get the passwd wrong I get:
> session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
>
>
> If I get it right or use -U% I get: (BTW I've used many userid/passwd
> combinations
> NT ones, WIN2000 ones and local ones)
>
> Domain=[UKI] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>
> Sharename      Type      Comment
> ---------      ----      -------
>
> Server               Comment
> ---------            -------
>
> Workgroup            Master
> ---------            -------
>
> That is I see no ships (shares). If I do the same thing and point it at
NT4
> boxes
> all looks dandy and I've got a number of printers working this way.
>
> I not convinced this is SAMBA problem per-se as I also can't use the
WIN2000
> printer from an NT box.
>
> Has this already come up?
>

It looks like you forgot to enable the guest account or to create a user
account.

In the control panel under users -> advanced -> advanced -> advanced. (!?@)
you can enable it.

regards

Joost






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