Printing problems when user in "Power Users" group

charles n wyble charles at thewybles.com
Fri Jan 28 16:50:26 GMT 2005


	Please send these type of querys to the samba-users list. Thank you. 
This is a development list and is for detailed technical questions and 
code discussion.

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Olaf Frączyk wrote:
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> | 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.
	Is there a faq entry for it? I could look but I don't have time.
> 
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> 
> cheers, jerry



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