printings

[Gerald Carter]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Patrizia Canton wrote:

> I am feeeling quite stupid, but I am not able to have printers
> working. I hope someone could help me. I defined a print$ share set in
> the print$ share write list= root and printer admin=root when I
> connect from the WINNT client as root I can see in the printer folder
> on Samba server the printers I have in my printcap file the print$
> share, but not the Add Printer Wizard. If I try to view the printer
> properties for any printer I can see that the "NEW Driver ..." button
> for installing the new printer driver is not active. so I am logging
> as root, but I am not root at all. Why? I am running Linux
> Debian2.2rev2, kernel 2.4.3 this is part of my smb.conf
...
> [print$]
>     browseable = yes
>     read only=yes
>     write list= root
>     printer admin=root
>     path = /usr/local/samba/printers
>     printable = yes

This should be 'printable = no'  It's a file share.  See the example in
the HOWTO (http://samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf)



Cheers, jerry
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