Printing problems when user in "Power Users" group

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jan 28 14:48:26 GMT 2005


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Olaf Frączyk wrote:
|
| When I add domain user to "Power Users" group on
| Win2000, then he cannot see any printer jobs nor
| printer status. Printing works.
|
| In /Start/Settings/Printers window I get: "Access denied, impossible to
| connect" (translated from Polish) for the printer on the print server.
|
| I have generated level=3 logs:
| 1. print_NOT_OK.log - user in "Power Users" group
| 2. print_OK.log - few minutes later, after removal from
|    "Power Users" group
|
| Samba 3.0.11pre2
| Windows - W2K (PL) SP3 + all patches till 27.12.2004
|
| Is there any workaround?

Either install the print driver on the server and use
point-n-print for the clients or set the 'user client driver'
option in smb.conf.  This is a well know issue in the Windows
print model.




cheers, jerry
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