NT can't print while Win 95 can?

[Glenn A. Malling]

on Wed, 01 Jul 1998 13:51:08 MESZ cmtumb at U9JTH.mgb01.telekom.de said:

> Hello all, I have a printing problem with NT, Samba 1.9.18p8 and
> Debian Linux 1.3 (Kernel 2.0.32). I defined a printer share, which
> works fine with Win95, but it does not print with NT 4.0 SP3 and NT
> 3.51. After  installing the "EnablePlainTextPassword" registry entry
> NT4.0 is  able to browse, connect and use a file system share on the
> printserver, but it can not print to the same server? I can install  a
> printer on NT, but if I try to print a testpage, I get immediately the
> error (translated from german): "Cannot print. Show the Printer
> Assistant? The syntax for the filename, directory name or the share
> name is wrong."

Hi Manfred,

I have the same problem printing to a remote print service
with Samba 1.9.18p7 on Solaris 2.5.1 and NT 3.51 when using
security = share.  From the debug information it looks like
samba is trying to authenticate the printer name as a username
instead of using the already authenticated username from the
[homes] share connection.

E.g.

1998/06/30 18:03:08 Transaction 12 of length 73
switch message SMBtconX (pid 7940)
chdir to /usr/local/samba/lib
Got device type ?????
Trying username dupleX  <------
1998/06/30 18:03:08 invalid username/password for duplex <------
1998/06/30 18:03:08 error packet at line 171 cmd=117 (SMBtconX) eclass=2 ecode=2
error string = Invalid argument

I reported this to samba-bugs on Mon, 11 May 1998. The problem
report is PR#6885.  No solution as yet. So I'm still running
1.9.17p5 where it works as expected.

Glenn