Samba

[Cliff Rowley]

Do you have lpr up and running?  If so, you can create a section in your
smb.conf like so:

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	print ok = Yes
	browseable = no

Samba with enumerate your printers and they will be accessible via
smb.  If that still doesnt work, I'll send you my smb.conf.

I would suspect that authentication would be needed to access a printer as
much as it is for a share.  I could be wrong, however.  Do bear in mind
that your smbpasswd's must be the same as the login password on the
Windows machine(s).

Cliff Rowley

- while (!asleep) { code(); }

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Per Arve wrote:

> Well, I have acturally spent a couple of hours in front of swat, filling the
> different fields for the globals. Tried to use setup the printers,
> but there are no printers to choose from though I have set up one printer on
> my freebsd. Unfortunately, I have no previous kvowledge on administrating PCs
> so I rather like to have an explicit example to copy, than having to choose
> the value of som 20+ parameters whthout understanding their meaning, even
> after reading about them in the man smb.conf pages. Do the users really need
> access to shares in order to print?
> 
> Per
> 
> Cliff Rowley wrote:
> 
> > > I have installed samba during installation of freebsd. It turned out not
> > > to install as the samba man pages suggest, nor did the freebsd ports
> > > collection. Does this create any particular changes in the smb.conf file
> > > or other configuration parameters, that I need to take care of.
> >
> > Nothing wrong with the installation :)
> >
> > > Does anyone have a smb.conf for the following simple situation. I am
> > > setting up a local network of 4 to 8 Win95 machines, a printer hooked to
> > > the ethernet, and a freebsd running samba to function as a printserver
> > > for the PC's. The freebsd machine can print fine at the moment. I like
> > > to get an example of how to configure the win95's and samba. Please,
> > > send me advice on how to set this up including explicit example smb.conf
> > > fiel and setup of the win95 network controllpanel that work together.
> >
> > SWAT is a *great* tool btw.  To use is, first add the following line to
> > /etc/services (I added mine after accessbuilder 888/tcp):
> >
> > swat            901/tcp
> >
> > Then etc /etc/inetd.conf and add the following line:
> >
> > swat    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/sbin/swat    swat
> >
> > Then killall -HUP inetd
> >
> > Now fire up a web browser, and point it toward the machine you just setup
> > swat and samba on on port 901.  For example, my samba box is called
> > merlin:
> >
> > http://merlin:901
> >
> > You will then be prompted for your username/password.  Be careful here -
> > if your LAN is not secure (i.e. you have other users on your LAN) your
> > password will be exposed on the LAN, and it's your root password.  If your
> > LAN is not secure, forget swat.
> >
> > If it's ok, then enter your root username and password.  You will then be
> > looking at a web based Samba configuration tool, and it rocks.
> >
> > That's configuring Samba sorted.  Onto the next problem.
> >
> > > Do I need to create a particular user in the unix system for the
> > > pc-ursers. Normally, they will not have their own account on the freebsd
> > > machine.
> >
> > Use smbpasswd.  They obviously need a password to access the shares, and
> > using smbpasswd means they dont have to have a system account.  Here's an
> > example:
> >
> > smbpasswd -a plonker
> >
> > The -a flag means add.  You will then be prompted twice for the password
> > for that user (in this case, plonker).  'man smbpasswd' for more
> > information.
> >
> > That's it.  Your users will now have access to the smb shares.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Cliff Rowley
> >
> > - while (!asleep) { code(); }
> 
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> Per Arve
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