Problem printing from NT to printer attached to LInux box

[Joel Hammer]

Hmmmm...
A juicy permissions problem.
Try running checkpc -f and see if that fixes up permissions for you.
Below are the permissions on lpr, I assume your print command.
It needs to be suid.
rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       235672 Feb 17  2000 /usr/bin/lpr 
Joel
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Carlton Davis wrote:
> I installed Samba 2.2.2 on my Linux box. The smb.conf file is as shown 
> below. The permission on /var/spool/lpd/lp is set to 755; ie, it is 
> writable only by the owner, which is lp. With the setup as is, when I
> try to print from the NT machine, the smb log on the Linux box
> indicates the following error: " print_job_start: insufficient
> permissions to open spool file /var/spool/lpd/lp".
> If I set the permission on /var/spool/lpd/lp to 777, I can
> print; however, for obvious security concerns, this solution is
> undesirable.
> 
> Could someone inform me as to what is the correct way to set things up
> to allow printing from my NT machine without making /var/spool/lpd/lp
> writable by all. My smb.conf file is shown below.
> 
> [global]
>    netbios name = bert
>    workgroup = WORKGROUP
>    hosts allow = 10.10.10. 127.
>    load printers = yes
>    max log size = 50
>    security = server
>    password server = 10.10.10.8
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY 
> 
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
>    browseable = yes
>    guest ok = yes
>    writable = no
>    printable = yes
>    public = yes
>    write list = @administrators,root   
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Carlton
> 
> 
> 
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